The Optimist

Forced to smuggle messages into Russian and American Embassies in roller towels, the Optimist becomes a double agent for MI5 and causes mayhem at a poisonous cocktail party.

Losing his money at the races, the Optimist gets work from Sal at her stables, where he accidentally saves the aptly named and lightning-fast horse Nutter.

After dancer Olga hides a fabulous diamond in her ballet shoe, the Optimist is thrown into a world of international crime.

After the Optimist is mistakenly hailed as an innovative painter, his absurd abstracts and signature on sausages sell for thousands.

After inheriting a crumbling and sinister country home, and equally crumbling and sinister butler, the Optimist tries to become a Lord.