FRIDAY NIGHT MOVIE: GET CHARLIE TULLY (1972) Dick Emery OOH... YOU ARE AWFUL

 Ooh... You Are Awful is a 1972 British comedy film Directed by Cliff Owen; Produced by E.M. Smedley-Aston, Sidney Gilliat, and Frank Launder; Written by John Warren and John Singer. Its alternative title on its North American release was Get Charlie Tully.

Before his death, Reggie Campbell Peek deposited a stolen £500,000 into a Swiss bank account. But Peek left a record of the account number: the digits tattooed on the bottoms of four young women, none of whom know the value of their asset. His friend and partner-in-crime Charlie Tully, using his talent as a "master of disguise" - sets out to locate those women, and gain sight of the digits. Meanwhile, Tully is being watched by other - more dangerous - criminals.

DICK EMERY

Conmen Charlie Tully and Reggie Peek have successfully conned a couple of Italian men, and are making an easy escape with £500,000. Flushed with success, Tully is unable to resist running a "quick and easy" minor con on a passing American tourist. But "quick and easy" unexpectedly goes awry, and Tully is arrested. While Tully is imprisoned, Peek manages to escape and deposit the £500,000 in a Swiss bank account. Eventually, when Tully is finally released, he is met by Peek, intending to give him the bank account number. But Peek has been having an affair with the sister of London crime lord Sid Sabbath, and his reunion with Tully is cut short when Peek is murdered, on the orders of Sabbath.

DERREN NESBITT

Peek has left a record of the bank account number, but in an unusual way. Befitting his reputation as a womaniser, the digits are tattooed on the bottoms of four young women. Tully adopts a range of disguises, to track down each woman in turn to see her naked bottom. Meanwhile, Tully's antics are being tracked by other - more dangerous - criminals: from London and Rome...

RONALD FRASER

The first woman Tully finds is a British Rail announcer, who disrobes inside a photo booth at Waterloo Station.  The second is a bride on her wedding day, who is exposed in front of her guests.  The third is the daughter of a peer, who Tully spies through her bedroom window.  Fourth and last is a policewoman at a police training school. Tully enters the school, dragged up as a trainee WPC. After spying on a multitude of nubile young recruits, he discovers the digits during a physical training session.

CHERYL KENNEDY

Throughout, Tully is confronted by members of Sid Sabbath's gang, with orders to kill - only for them to mysteriously die themselves. Tully thinks he is "lucky", while Sabbath thinks Tully is perhaps a one-man army. But neither realise Tully is being secretly guarded by Italian gangsters. It transpires the two Italian men, conned at the start of the movie, had Mafia connections - and a "Godfather" has ordered Tully be kept safe until he can be brought to Rome...

CAST:

Dick Emery                 Charlie Tully
Derren Nesbitt             Sid Sabbath
Ronald Fraser              Reggie Campbell Peek
Pat Coombs                 Libby Niven
William Franklyn        Arnold Van Cleef
Cheryl Kennedy          Jo Mason
Norman Bird               Warder Burke
Roland Curram            Vivian
Liza Goddard               Liza Missenden Green
Ambrosine Phillpotts   Lady Missenden Green
Brian Oulton                Funeral Director

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