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Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men

  • Status: Released
  • 01-10-1952
  • Runtime: 71 min
  • Score: 5.1
  • Vote count: 6

The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.

Peter Sellers

Major Bloodnok

Spike Milligan

Pvt. Eccles

Harry Secombe

Harry Jones

Michael Bentine

Prof. Osrick Pureheart

Robert Cawdron

Sergeant Bullshine

Graham Stark

Spider

Miriam Karlin

Woman in Shop

Sidney Vivian

Landlord

Howell Evans

Eunice Gayson

Officer's Wife

Carole Carr

Carole Gayley

CinemaSerf

I was never a great fan of any of the "Goons" so approached this with quite a bit of trepidation. Sadly, it is all rather silly and presented in such a stilted fashion as to appear to have been rehearsed to within an inch of it's life - totally devoid of anything that looked convincingly genuine or spontaneous. There is a storyline involving a rather flaky professor who leaves a top secret formula in a grocer's shop. When he attempts to return it, he is mistaken for one of the "Z" (British army reservists) men, dragooned into the army and soon exposed to criminals who are also after this scientific boon. Curiously enough, there are one or two quite redeeming musical performances dotted throughout this featuring Carole Carr and Harry Secombe; but the performances of his fellow goons - Messrs. Bentine, Sellars and Milligan - really have suffered badly from the ravages of time, so much as to make this pretty unwatchable to all but real "Goonies".