Wednesday, September 11, 2019

Who Done It? (1956)

A hilarious farce which helped launch Benny Hill's career. He plays Hugo a bumbling private detective who gets involved with sinister (in a ridiculously over the top way) foreign agents who want to steal the plans for a new weather control machine (and no doubt dominate the world)...


Assisted by Frankie (Belinda Lee) - who does most of the actual dangerous stuff, somehow she possesses the strength of about ten men - he manages to foil the nefarious agents in a huge action set-piece taking part at an exhibition (complete with robot tank which Hugo uses to deal with his police nemesis Gerry Marsh) and a final chase in a stock car race.

It is silly, crude but very funny.