alec guinness be wonderful in this movie . a the movie start and he wander around london with a reporter in tow and carry a keg of rum . he walk into a bank and bang on the counter and demand drinking glass . a stunned donald pleasance and play a bank clerk and star back and say we do not have glass . alec guinness look around in disbelief and say no glass . what do you do when famous people come in here . it this kind of humor that permeate the film . guinness purchase a run down resort pier and stroll through the place and which be fill with bored pensioner watch cheap stage show . the pier have be fall apart for decade and but he breathe new life into it by create a dance hall and offer spirit . the local politician have other idea and and guiness find out that they have hoodwink him and and through the right of eminent domain and plan to purchase the pier back at half the price . he outwit them by register the pier a a ship and enrage the politician and and offer cruise for people prone to seasickness . it a cruise that never go anywhere and but offer food and dancing and music and and even a radar screen for the more mature folk . it all very proper and charm . guinness show off his dance move and there a climax involve a dredging boat and and then a bouncy little song at the end accompany by the ghost of guinness ancestor ( all play by him and of course ) while the song go on just long enough to make you laugh like hell at the weirdness of it . this might not be one of guinness best role and but it still a fun movie .