
Ladies Who Do
The “Ladies Who Do” are office cleaners. One of them discovers some hot stock tips and they make a fortune. They then make good use of it to save their old neighbourhoods from the wicked developer.
Genre: Comedy
Director: C.M. Pennington-Richards
Actors: Avril Elgar, Cardew Robinson, Dandy Nichols, Harry H. Corbett, Joan Benham, Jon Pertwee, Miriam Karlin, Peggy Mount, Robert Morley, Ron Moody
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