
While posters urge austerity and vigilance in wartime Britain, 'Joey Boy' Thompson has never had it better. In a cellar beneath his East London fish shop, a gambling club thrives – and austerity provides a nice black-market sideline. But the dolce vita crumbles when police arrive in a lightning raid, and offer Joey and his fellow reprobates a stark choice: sign up for active service, or face another stint inside. Thus the lads find themselves heading off to Italy, determined to make the best of it...

as Joey Boy Thompson

as Benny 'The Kid' Lindowski

as Sergeant Major Dobbs

as Rabbit Malone

as Clarence Doubleday

as Signals officer

as Italian Girl

as Sergeant

as Mad George Long

as Lady Thameridge

as Lt Hope

as Col. Grant

as Antonio

as Insp. Morgan

as Tom Hobson