Ladies Who Do

Ladies Who Do is a 1963 British comedy film starring Peggy Mount, Robert Morley and Harry H. Corbett.

On receiving his cigar, the Colonel discovers that the scrap of paper actually contains details of a City takeover bid and unscrupulously uses this insider information to make 5000 on the stock market, which he shares with Mrs. Cragg. This newfound wealth prompts the pair, together with three other chars who are Mrs. Craggs neighbours in Pitt Street, to form the company Ladezudu a speculation syndicate headed by Whitforth with the ladies providing insider information collected from bins at their respective offices. All is going well until an illtimed investment in Irish pigs wipes out all their capital as swine fever kills their stock.It is then that Mrs. Cragg discovers that Ryder is planning the demolition and redevelopment of Pitt Street. As the bulldozers arrive and no assets to assist them, can the ladies who do save their street and take on the City executives singlehandedly? ........

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