Crooks Anonymous

Mar 31, 1962

1h 28m

★ 5.9

No one ever turned on the HEAT and HILARITY Like "Crooks Anonymous"

Overview

A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Production Companies

Independent Artists

Crooks Anonymous Trailers

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Cast

Fred "Captain 'Dandy' Forsdyke" Cox

Leslie Phillips

Brother R.S. Widdowes

Stanley Baxter

Senior Brother Laurence Montague

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Babette La Vern

Julie Christie

Sir Harvey Russellrod

James Robertson Justice

Brother Ronnie Bassett

Michael Medwin

Sister Prunella

Pauline Jameson

Grimsdale

Robertson Hare

Mr. Wagstaffe

Raymond Huntley

Bert

Norman Rossington

Woods

Harry Fowler

Fletcher

Charles Lloyd Pack

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