Wrong Arm Of The Law

Starring: Peter Sellers; Lionel Jeffries & Bernard Cribbins Director: Cliff Owen

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Description by OLDIES.com:

In this hilarious crime comedy, Peter Sellers stars as Pearly Gates, the cockney kingpin of London's most efficient gang of thieves, organizing spectacular robberies from behind the front of a haute-couture dress salon. Everything goes well until the police start appearing after every job to confiscate the loot. The astute Pearly realizes there's a traitor in his gang, and no one is above suspicion - not even his enticing girlfriend Valerie. The Wrong Arm Of The Law is a British comic gem.

Product Description:

A Cockney band of thieves pose as police officers and begin confiscating loot stolen by another London gang who operate behind a high-fashion salon. Realizing his outfit is getting ripped off by the impersonators, criminal kingpin Pearly Gates (Peter Sellers) teams up with both rival gang leaders and the police to capture the double-crossing crooks and restore order to the London underworld. Sellers delivers a typically manic performance in this little-seen spoof of gangster movies.

Plot Synopsis:

All the London-based criminal gangs become so outraged by a rival Australian mob's total lack of ethics in hijacking them after the jobs they pull that they join forces with the police in a plan to run them down.

Plot Keywords:

British | Classic | Comedy | Cops | Criminals | Gangsters | London, England | Spoof | Theatrical Release | Thieves

Production Notes:

• E.M. Smedley-Aston is listed in some sources as sharing producing credit with Aubrey Baring; however, he is not listed in the beginning or end credits.
• Shot in London, England.
• Released theatrically in the USA March 14, 1963.

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