

101 minutes
8/9/1960
In a mansion block in Knightsbridge, a gang of middle-aged biddies decide to brighten up "the dullness of the tea time of life" by staging a series of robberies on furriers, then donating the proceeds to charitable concerns. Terry Thomas as a retired army officer leads the gang, which includes Athene Seyler and Hattie Jacques, on a series of capers that nearly go awry when their maid, Billie Whitelaw, an ex-con and also a resident of the block, falls for a police officer.

Terry-Thomas
as Major Albert Rayne

Athene Seyler
as Dame Beatrice Appleby

Hattie Jacques
as Nanette Parry

Billie Whitelaw
as Lily

Elspeth Duxbury
as Elizabeth "Pinkie" Pinkerton

Jack Hedley
as Jim Benham

Raymond Huntley
as Inspector Pape

Freddie Frinton
as Drunk

Kenneth Williams
as Hon. Freddie Warrington

Irene Handl
as Madame Spolinski

Penny Morrell
as Gertrude

Sydney Tafler
as Lionel Spanager
Joan Heal
as Dora Spanager

Noel Purcell
as Burglar

Peter Vaughan
as Policeman in Car
Peter Bathurst
as Gambler