A very tedious and unfunny film. Adam Faith wasn't exactly a great singer and his acting here can only be described as wooden, and that's being generous! The film is essentially a series of weak and feeble cobbled together scenes where Adam Faith (Tony) tries to raise money by getting his book about the Loch Ness monster published, so he and a few chums, including the glamorous Carole Lesley, travel to Scotland to fabricate evidence of seeing 'Nessie' - which he then recounts to our unsuspecting 'highland cousins.' The daft and contrived storyline, together with the corny dialogue, renders the film almost unwatchable from beginning to end! To inject genuine humour into the narrative, Spike Milligan, Charles Hawtrey and Wilfred Brambell feature by playing eccentric characters, but despite their best efforts, even they struggle to enliven the proceedings. Sid James, with his conspicuous cockney accent and gravelly throated laughs, plays 'Harry,' a wily and 'dodgy' Scottish publican, who has a nice illegal sideline going on with trout fishing. James basically reprises the good natured 'spiv' role so often seen in the countless films he starred in during the 1950's. At least James helps to inject some humour into the film, but Terence Longdon, a distinguished, notable B film actor, who plays Tony's irritating and naive pal called 'Vernon,' is wasted in this tripe, and after 60 minutes of watching this at home, I think any sane audience at the time would have walked out of the cinema! The film meanders from one tedious scene to another, which left me begging for the credits to roll!
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