Runner
2026 · Action · Comedy
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Film / 1961
What a Whopper
Directed by
Gilbert Gunn
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
The story
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
Cast
Adam FaithTony Blake
Carole LesleyCharlotte 'Charlie' Pinner
Terence LongdonVernon
Marie France DoussetMarie
Freddie FrintonGilbert Pinner
Sidney JamesHarry Sutton
Charles HawtreyArnold
Clive DunnMr. Slate
Spike MilliganTramp
Wilfrid BrambellPostie
Terry ScottSergeant
Fabia DrakeMrs Pinner
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Harold BerensSammy
Ewan RobertsJimmy
Archie DuncanMacDonald
Gordon RollingsDoone
Lloyd ReckordJojo
Lance PercivalPoliceman at Roundabout
Molly WeirTeacher
Fyfe RobertsonSelf
John Stevenson LangCrofter
Alastair Hunter1st Scot
Alan Casley2nd Scot
Frank Forsyth3rd Scot
Trevor PeacockBarrow Boy (uncredited)
Amanda BarrieChelsea Girl (uncredited)
George HilsdonMonster Maker (uncredited)
Peter GreenspanFreddy (uncredited)
Graham StuartLover (uncredited)
Eileen GourlayLover (uncredited)
Michele DotriceSchoolgirl (uncredited)
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