Down Among the Z Men

1952

Comedy

The Goon Show hits the big screen. Professor Pure Heart absent-mindedly loses the top secret formula in Harry Jones' Grocery Shop. "Bats of the Yard", as Harry calls himself, finds it and attempts to return it to the Professor.

Rating

5.1
6 votes

Popularity

0.2048

Origin & Countries

USGB | en | United Kingdom

Production

E.J. Fancey Productions

Runtime

71 min.

Status

Released

Release: 10/1/1952

Credits

Down Among the Z Men

Maclean RogersDirector

Down Among the Z Men

Peter SellersMajor Bloodnok

Down Among the Z Men

Spike MilliganPvt. Eccles

Down Among the Z Men

Harry SecombeHarry Jones

Down Among the Z Men

Michael BentineProf. Osrick Pureheart

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Reviews

CinemaSerf

9/9/2022

4 / 10

I was never a great fan of any of the "Goons" so approached this with quite a bit of trepidation. Sadly, it is all rather silly and presented in such a stilted fashion as to appear to have been rehearsed to within an inch of it's life - totally devoid of anything that looked convincingly genuine or spontaneous. There is a storyline involving a rather flaky professor who leaves a top secret formula in a grocer's shop. When he attempts to return it, he is mistaken for one of the "Z" (British army reservists) men, dragooned into the army and soon exposed to criminals who are also after this scientific boon. Curiously enough, there are one or two quite redeeming musical performances dotted throughout this featuring Carole Carr and Harry Secombe; but the performances of his fellow goons - Messrs. Bentine, Sellars and Milligan - really have suffered badly from the ravages of time, so much as to make this pretty unwatchable to all but real "Goonies".

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