Make Mine a Million (1959)
A persuasive ad man cons a British TV makeup artist to slip in a promotion for Bonko Detergent during a show in this comedy. The ploy is a success until the makeup man is fired. He and the ad man team up and create a pirate station that broadcasts their commercials into other shows. They soon find themselves in trouble when thieves, believing their roving broadcast van is filled with gold, steal the vehicle. The adman radios the police and the robbers are captured. This leads him to get a new job with the television network. The makeup man then interrupts the man's first show with his commercials. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- Arthur Askey, Sidney James, (more)
- Director(s):
- Lance Comfort
Synopsis of Make Mine a Million
A persuasive ad man cons a British TV makeup artist to slip in a promotion for Bonko Detergent during a show in this comedy. The ploy is a success until the makeup man is fired. He and the ad man team up and create a pirate station that broadcasts their commercials into other shows. They soon find themselves in trouble when thieves, believing their roving broadcast van is filled with gold, steal the vehicle. The adman radios the police and the robbers are captured. This leads him to get a new job with the television network. The makeup man then interrupts the man's first show with his commercials. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
Complete Cast of Make Mine a Million
- Arthur Askey - Arthur Ashton
- Dermot Walsh - Martin Russell
- Clive Morton - National TV Director-General
- Sally Barnes - Sally
- Olga Lindo - Mrs. Burgess
- Bruce Seton - Supt. James
- David Nettheim - Professor
- Patricia Bredin
- Dennis Lotis
- Tommy Trinder
- Raymond Glendenning
- Anthea Askey
- Sidney James - Sid Gibson
- Kenneth Connor - Anxious Husband
- Martin Benson - Commercial TV Chairman
- Lionel Murton - Commercial TV Director
- Bernard Cribbins - Jack
- George Margo - Assistant
- Gillian Lynne - Ballet Dancer
- Sabrina
- Evelyn Laye
- Peter Noble
- Dickie Henderson
- Director(s):
- Lance Comfort
- Writer(s):
- Peter Blackmore, Talbot Rothwell, Arthur Askey
- Producer(s):
- John Baxter
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