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What a Whopper

What a Whopper

  • Status: Released
  • 17-10-1961
  • Runtime: 90 min
  • Score: 6.2
  • Vote count: 13

A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.

Adam Faith

Tony Blake

Carole Lesley

Charlotte 'Charlie' Pinner

Terence Longdon

Vernon

Marie France Dousset

Marie

Freddie Frinton

Gilbert Pinner

Sid James

Harry Sutton

Charles Hawtrey

Arnold

Clive Dunn

Mr. Slate

Spike Milligan

Tramp

Wilfrid Brambell

Postie

Terry Scott

Sergeant

Fabia Drake

Mrs Pinner

Harold Berens

Sammy

Ewan Roberts

Jimmy

Archie Duncan

MacDonald

Gordon Rollings

Doone

Lloyd Reckord

Jojo

Lance Percival

Policeman at Roundabout

Molly Weir

Teacher

Fyfe Robertson

Self

John Stevenson Lang

Crofter

Alastair Hunter

1st Scot

Alan Casley

2nd Scot

Frank Forsyth

3rd Scot

Trevor Peacock

Barrow Boy (uncredited)

Amanda Barrie

Chelsea Girl (uncredited)

George Hilsdon

Monster Maker (uncredited)

Peter Greenspan

Freddy (uncredited)

Graham Stuart

Lover (uncredited)

Eileen Gourlay

Lover (uncredited)

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Heart-throb pop star Adam Faith ("Tony") is a struggling author who cannot get his book about the famed Loch Ness monster published. It purports to be a serious work and naturally all the publishers know there's no such beastie. Determined to prove them wrong, he and some pals fake some photos and soon the world and it's wife is heading to verify the sightings. Now as a Scot, this irked on a couple of levels - not least Faith's appalling attempt at the accent and director Gilbert Gunn's determination not to use any Scottish actors at all, as far as I could see. Sidney James as the Highland hotel owner really did take the proverbial biscuit. Despite these rather obvious, doubtless budget-driven clangers, at times it's actually quite a fun, light-hearted, wheeze but it's really let down by the fairly stilted acting across the board which is almost as ropey as the stereotype-ridden script. Needless to say, the filming never left the home counties and as for the theme song - well, least said. It does have a nostalgia value - simple comedy around an even more simple story, but it's still not very good.