Cuckoo Patrol

Cuckoo Patrol is a 1967 British musical comedy film directed by Duncan Wood and starring Freddie Garrity, Victor Maddern, John Le Mesurier and Kenneth Connor. It was produced in 1965 but held back for two years.[1]

The film's tag line, "Based on a story outline by Freddie and the Dreamers", has been described in The Independent as "terrifying".[2]

Plot

A group of Boy Scouts get separated from Wick, their adult leader, on their way to a group meeting. A series of unconnected events ensue.

At first they are trapped in the back of a furniture lorry. When they eventually get out they are closer to their destination than they think, but thanks to poor map reading they head in the wrong direction.

A car passing loses a suitcase labelled The Silver Supermen. This results in them taking the place of two wrestlers in a tag match and surprisingly winning.

Struggling to put up their tent, they are helped by a group of girl guides and end singing around the campfire until Brown Owl takes the girls off.

The tent is in the middle of the road and two bank robber's getaway car is blocked. In suggesting a diversion the car is wrecked and the boys offer to carry the men's gear on their cart. They then end helping crack a safe at Marshall and Snodgress, a sports good store. The gelignite gets thrown around before one boy opens the safe with a karate chop. The boys realise that a real crime is being committed and bombard the crooks with tennis balls before the police arrive.

After setting up a tent in the store they arrive safely at the jamboree on a tractor The cart on the back blows up as the gelignite was still there.

Cast

References
  1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0195619/
  2. Robert, Andrew (5 April 2014). "A Hard Day's Night: How The Beatles had Cliff Richard on the run". The Independent.
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