Starring and mostly written by Charlie Drake "the Marmite comic". At his height (5ft 1" 
) in the late 50s early 60s he was a very big star on television, but I think he couldn't accept his rapid decline and going off people's radar, as borne out by the documentary he did in 2001 with the Arena's "Drake's Progress" that I recorded and have on DVD somewhere - I do remember he was living in a flat somewhere with one of his brothers and was a bitter man.
But I digress. The film. It was good and enjoyable but at nearly 2 hours long it could have been shortened, I think.
Lots of then famous people in it of course, BUT the thing that amused me was when he was in prison, at one point when a group of prisoners were sitting around a table you could be forgiven if you thought you were watching an episode of "Porridge" for there was a "Grouty" lookalike Percy Herbert AND Ronnie Barker for all the world looking like Norman Stanley Fletcher. Bit weird for a few seconds there.
