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
