KILL OR CURE (1962)

Directed by: George Pollock

Starring: Terry-Thomas, Eric Sykes, Dennis Price, Lionel Jeffries, Moira Redmond, Katya Douglas, David Lodge, Ronnie Barker, Hazel Terry, Derren Nesbitt, Harry Locke, Arthur Howard, Tristram Jellinek, Peter Butterworth, Patricia Hayes, Anna Russell, Sidney Vivian, Julian Orchard

88 minutes

(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:

Mr Barker Rynde comes to a country hotel to assist a wealthy widow. He endures a nature cure diet and exercises under Rumbelow. When the widow is poisoned, Barker Rynde and Rumbelow join forces to win a reward offered by the hotel manager Crossley. Crossley is next murdered, and the clues point to the original criminal, who is acting on orders of a Nazi war criminal. The reward however has been inherited by the widow's Pekinese, who Barker Rynde sells to a Chine takeaway, where he enjoys the best moo shu pork with noodles he ever had.