Local councillor Sidney Fiddler persuades the Mayor to help improve the image of their rundown seaside town by holding a beauty contest. But formidable Councillor Prodworthy, head of the local women's liberation movement, has other ideas. It's open warfare as the women's lib attempt to sabotage the contest.

Sidney James
as Councillor Sid Fiddler

Barbara Windsor
as Hope Springs

Joan Sims
as Connie Philpotts

Kenneth Connor
as Mayor Frederick Bumble

Bernard Bresslaw
as Peter Potter

June Whitfield
as Councillor Augusta Prodworthy

Peter Butterworth
as Admiral

Jack Douglas
as William

Patsy Rowlands
as Mildred Bumble

Joan Hickson
as Mrs. Dukes
John Chard
The team have feminists in their sights. The seaside resort of Fircombe is struggling to attract the tourists, so Sid Fiddler (Sid James) proposes a beauty contest to draw some much needed punters into the town. Getting the inept Mayor (Kenneth Connor) to agree was easy enough, but opposition com...
CinemaSerf
Despite the quite entertaining and bubbly contributions from Barbara Windsor, this franchise is now really scraping the bottom of the ideas barrel with this one. Sid James is "Fiddler", a local councillor who manages to convince the town council - under the mayorship of the hopeless "Mayor Bumble" (...