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Dry Rot. Image shows left to right: Flash Harry (Sid James), Alf Tubbe (Ronald Shiner). Credit: STUDIOCANAL
Dry Rot

Dry Rot

  • 1956 film

A bookie and his assistants attempt to recoup their losses by rigging a horse race. Stars Ronald Shiner, Brian Rix, Peggy Mount, Lee Patterson, Sid James and more.

  • Repeated Monday at 8:30am on TPTV

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Dry Rot

Dry Rot

1956 comedy in which three dodgy bookies, Alf Tubbe, Flash Harry, and Fred Phipps, plan to rig a horse race by kidnapping the fancied horse and its French jockey.

Staying at a country house hotel near the racecourse, run by Colonel and Mrs Wagstaff, they conceal the horse Sweet Lavender (and later the jockey) in a hidden cellar, which results in a series of increasingly comedic situations.

First released: Monday 17th April 2023

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