Crooks in Cloisters

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After a minor train heist, Little Walter and his gang of six flee London, setting up shop in an abandoned Cornish monastery. Despite their criminal past, the group gradually adapts to the pe... Read allAfter a minor train heist, Little Walter and his gang of six flee London, setting up shop in an abandoned Cornish monastery. Despite their criminal past, the group gradually adapts to the peaceful monastic lifestyle.After a minor train heist, Little Walter and his gang of six flee London, setting up shop in an abandoned Cornish monastery. Despite their criminal past, the group gradually adapts to the peaceful monastic lifestyle.

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Trivia
Diana Dors was first choice for the role of Bikini.

Goofs
Brother Bikini (Barbara Windsor) takes a blackberry and apple pie out of the oven with a cloth because it is hot. But then when cutting it she holds the pie dish with her bare fingers. Then all the brothers are given a piece but all handle it with no problem.

Quotes
Bikini: Pity you don't get well educated like Willy the poet.
Walt: Cut the cackle.

Connections
Featured in Barbara Windsor: A Comedy Roast (2011)

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6/10

Mildly amusing sub-'Carry On' British comedy of the 1960s

Something to watch whilst having a severe cold and being stuck in the house on a freezing November afternoon. The performers try their best but the plot is so wafer-thin and episodic and the basic comedic premise (of a gang of Cockney crooks holed up in a deserted monastery off the Cornish coast disguised as monks) is so over-used that one's interest soon flags. Interesting only really in order to ascertain how Barbara Windsor is STILL basically putting in the same performance as when this was made and to show anyone under fifty that the 1960s were definitely NOT about innovation and creativity when it came to the production of much of what passed as 'popular culture' in the first half at least of the decade. Watch and forget.