The sleepy staff of Macpherson's traditional Scottish tweed firm get a rude awakening when young Macpherson (Robert Morley) hires feisty American efficiency expert Angela Barrows (Constance Cummings). She advocates new-fangled horrors like automation and - ghastliest of all - 'synthetic fibre'. Can nothing stop her? Nothing, perhaps, but meek accountant Mr Martin (Sellers). Beneath that placid surface, still waters run deep; to balance the books, he decides, he must erase the 'error'...
Hancock's Hard Boiled Eggs: Sellers' contemporary, the Lad from East Cheam himself, Tony Hancock, appears with 'The Battle of the Sexes' Patricia Hayes in this cracking collection of 11 egg-cellent Egg Marketing Board adverts from 1966
A Ghost of a Chance (1968, 50 mins): bonus feature-length fun for all the family as Sellers' chum Graham Stark stars with Ronnie Barker, Patricia Hayes, Jimmy Edwards, Bernard Cribbins and Terry Scott in a corking Children's Film Foundation comedy
Images of Edinburgh in Archive Film: an atmospheric selection of rarely-seen short films capturing Scotland's capital in the first half of the 20th century, from the vaults of the BFI National Archive
Woolly Wonders: evocative 1940's archive films of traditional Scottish clothmaking, shot in colour by the great Jack Cardiff
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