Trouble in Store (1953)

12/14/1953Comedy1h 25m
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Norman is working in the stock room of a large London department store, but he has ambition (doesn't he always !!), he wants to be a window dresser making up the public displays. Whilst trying to fulfill his ambition, he falls in love (doesn't he always !!), with one of the shopgirls. Together they discover a plot to rob the store and, somehow, manage to foil the robbers.

Top Billed Cast

  1. Cast 1

    Norman Wisdom

    Norman

  2. Cast 1

    Moira Lister

    Peggy Drew

  3. Cast 1

    Megs Jenkins

    Miss Gibson

  4. Cast 1

    Jerry Desmonde

    August Freeman

  5. Cast 1

    Margaret Rutherford

    Miss Bacon

  6. Cast 1

    Lana Morris

    Sally Wilson

  7. Eddie Leslie

    Bill

  8. Cast 1

    Cyril Chamberlain

    Alf

  9. Cast 1

    Ronan O'Casey

    Eddie

Margaret Rutherford and Norman Wisdom share top billing here but the former - "Miss Bacon", a rather classy shoplifter, features infrequently. This is really just a showcase for Wisdom. He works in a department store that gets a new boss in "Augustus Freeman" (Jerry Desmonde) with whom he gets off to quite an entertaining, if ropey, start. Hired, then fired, then rehired - we now enjoy a series of set-piece comedy scenarios as poor old "Norman" lurches from fireplace to the fire. Purely by accident, he finds himself embroiled in a cunning plot to relieve the store of it's takings on sale day -...

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Original LanguageEnglish 

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