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Down Among the Z Men is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Maclean Rogers with Peter Sellers
Down Among the Z Men (1952)
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Add to a movie listDown Among the Z Men is a Black-and-white 1952 British comedy film starring The Goons; Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe.
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Harry Jones (Secombe) is a clerk in Mr. Crab's general mercantile store and an amateur actor in community theatre, where he is currently playing a Scotland Yard inspector, "Batts of the Yard". When the absentminded Prof. Osrick Purehart (Bentine) leaves a secret military formula in the store, mayhem ensues as two suspicious secret agents, who have been shadowing the professor, question Harry regarding the formula.Actors
Peter Sellers
(Major Bloodnok)
Harry Secombe
(Harry Jones)
Spike Milligan
(Pvt. Eccles)
Michael Bentine
Graham Stark
(Spider)
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