Take some famous actors playing small time criminals making good while bigger gangs are in prison. Bernard Cribbins, Barbara Windsor, Melvyn Hayes, as some of the crooks & Wilfred Bramble appears as an old sailor who helps the crooks by transporting their ill gotten gains which they recycle & turn into clean loot that can be sold on.
The crooks buy an island & pretend to be monks. You just know that problems are going to happen. Almost being caught by tourists & the old sailor. Almost being caught by the monks who used to live on the island. Cribbens can't keep away from gambling & wagers on his greyhound.
The monks do manage to start to make an honest living growing food on the island & start to enjoy it! All the time while they are on the island they are in hiding from the police who are trying to catch the last big criminal gang.
Babs Windsor is very much playing the dizzy blonde, but she's a very cheesecake pin-up style beauty. Melvyn Hayes comes down with & recovers from the flu (after divine intervention?) but Cribbens's Greyhound leads the police to the island with the large bets being made on it. The criminals are not eager to leave the island when their leader tells them it's safe for them to leave. They have become happy with the simple life that the island gives them.
As the criminals are leaving the island the police are hot on their tail. Finally the law put 2 & 2 together & are wanting the monks. They are caught but not before they give the island back to the real monks but we are left wondering what was in the suitcase - Fake Money, Silver, Gold, Jewels?
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