
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1961
- Starring
- Sid James, Kenneth Connor, Charles Hawtrey, Joan Sims, Kenneth Williams, Bill Owen, Liz Fraser, Terence Longdon and others
- Writer
- Norman Hudis
- Director
- Gerald Thomas
- Producer
- Peter Rogers
Bert Handy, proprietor of the Helping Hands agency - promising to provide assistance for any task, big or small - is in a quandry. Accompanied only by his elderly secretary Miss Cooling, he's in desperate need of employees to provide said assistance, but to date even an advert in The Times hasn't proven successful!
Meanwhile at the labour exchange, there's a dire shortage of jobs (never mind interesting ones), so when a motley crew get wind of Helping Hands' need for staff, they can't get there quick enough - and Bert hires all seven of them on the spot.
Work quickly builds up at the agency: from pet walking to translation services; modelling to cleaning; hosting and queue-place-saving, even Handy himself has to get to work.
However, with the increasing workload come an increasingly odd set of assignments; and when Miss Cooling's careful organisational system is thrown awry by a careless cleaner, disaster could be on the cards!
- Part of
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 88 minutes
- Release date
- Monday 27th March 1961
- Premiere
- Friday 17th March 1961, Odeon, Marble Arch
- Distributor
- Production company
- Picture
- Black and white
- Laugh track
- None
Broadcast details
- Last repeat
- Sunday 27th December 2020 at 11:00am on Film4
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