After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embarks on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. Hilarious disaster ensues and the cast starts to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls?
- Henry Lewis
- Henry Shields
- Jonathan Sayer
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