Hocus Pocus
Having come into a small inheritance, Vicar Simon Ross generously
decides to spend it all repairing his venerable but rather tumble-down
church. Not having a head for fi gures, he innocently runs up bills far in
excess of his available fi nances and soon fi nds himself in a fi x. His
fi anc e, Janet Jones, sees only one way out-Simon's twin brother,
Peter. The idea does not sit well with Simon, for while he and his
brother are identical in appearance (and doubled by the same actor),
they are completely diff erent in every other way and, for that matter,
they cordially dislike each other. Still, Peter is a successful fi nancier,
reputedly a millionaire. The question is whether Peter will cooperate,
but it so happens that this worthy is having some business diffi culties
of his own, and Simon's plea comes at an extremely advantageous time.
He is only too glad to escape to the country for a while, provided that
Simon will agree to impersonate him at a potentially stormy
stockholders meeting which Peter has been dreading. So the switch is
made. After Simon's retiring presence, the breezy Peter is a revelation
to Janet, but then Simon manages to work his own magic with his
brother's inamorata, a warmhearted strip-teaser named Bella Newell.
From then on, the plot thickens uproariously as the two brothers attack
each other's problems vigorously-and by their own devices.
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