The film stars Al Pillay, and Nosher Powell as the home secretary, and includes cameos from a number of well-known figures, including : Miranda Richardson and Nigel Planer as vile DHSS clerks, Robbie Coltrane, Rik Mayall as a union boss, Paul McCartney, Shane MacGowan, Jennifer Saunders, Jimmy Fagg, Kathy Burke, Koo Stark, Dawn French, Bill Wyman, Jools Holland, Hugh Cornwell, Adrian Edmondson, Angela Bowie, and Lemmy.
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For along Houston Street, Puck, who proclaims " What fools these mortals be ! " has a rich array of humanity to marvel at _ finger-snapping jazz-hounds, 4 a . m . pool sharks, dancing fools, fools waiting behind a velvet rope to start dancing, very pregnant folk singers, walkers, poseurs from Soho ( south of Houston ), shoppers from Noho ( north of Houston ), gardeners, noshers, moviegoers of every stripe _ and a handful of sinks for the bar and bathroom, if not the kitchen.
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The main characters include Gunner " Lofty " Sugden, a short, fat soldier who wears a pith helmet and possesses an incredible singing voice; Gunner " Parky " Parkin, a young recruit who, though eager, is slightly bumbling and has very little aptitude for the theatre; Gunner " La-de-dah " / " Paderewski " Graham, a bald-headed and intelligent Oxford graduate who plays the piano; Gunner " Atlas " Mackintosh, a short-tempered Scotsman who specialises in feats of strength; Gunner " Nobby " Clark, a not-very-bright soldier who does bird calls and whistling acts; and Gunner " Nosher " Evans, a soldier who does a paper-tearing act and tends to eat a lot, spraying food whenever he speaks.
