Inn for Trouble is a 1960 black and white British comedy film intended as a low budget filler to support a main feature in the days of cinema double features. it was a spin-off of the 1950s sitcom The Larkins - starring Peggy Mount, David Kossoff and Leslie Phillips; the title makes allusion to the real Trouble House Inn in Gloucestershire near Tetbury.
Plot
The Larkin family takes over a run-down country public house, "The Earl Osbourne". The pub has a resident young French artist, Yvette.
Meanwhile a property developer wants to buy the pub to knock it down to build a brand new "roadhouse" instead. He sends his nephew Percy to investigate.
Their efforts to rejuvenate business are impeded by the long-standing tradition of free beer being distributed by the local Earl. They try to trick people in with the same promise of free beer.
Meanwhile Percy Pirbright continually tries to catch the pub out by dragging the local policeman along to observe alleged breaches of the law (all without success).
A natural spring erupts in the cellar causing a flooding problem. However, they are finally offered £20,000 for the pub (which was very generous) and they also sell the formula for their own beer: the secret ingredient being the spring water.
Trivia
The film is notable for the final credited appearance of Graham Moffatt in the role of Jumbo and the final appearance of A. E. Matthews as Sir Hector Gore-Blandish.
Cast
Peggy Mount as Ada Larkin
David Kossoff as Alf Larkin
Leslie Phillips as John Belcher
Glyn Owen as Lord Bill Osborne
Yvonne Monlaur as Yvette Dupres
A. E. Matthews as Sir Hector Gore-Blandish
Ronan O'Casey as Jeff Rogers
Shaun O'Riordan as Eddie Larkin
Alan Wheatley as Harold Gaskin
Willoughby Goddard as Sergeant Saunders
Alan Rolfe as Ted
Gerald Campion as George
Stanley Unwin as Farmer
Irene Handl as Lily
Graham Moffatt as Jumbo Gudge
Charles Hawtrey as Silas Withering
Esma Cannon as Dolly
Edward Malin as Old Charlie
Barbara Mitchell as Hetty Prout
Graham Stark as Charlie
Frank Williams as Percy Pirbright
Reception
Kine Weekly called it and The Same to You the most popular British double bill at the British box office in 1960.
