Down Among the Z Men

Down Among the Z Men is a 1952 black-and-white British comedy film directed by Maclean Rogers and starring the Goons: Spike Milligan, Peter Sellers, Michael Bentine and Harry Secombe.

Convinced by the two spies to follow the professor, Harry goes to an Army post, Camp Warwell, where he is mistakenly enlisted in the Z Men, ostensibly an elite unit guarding atomic secrets but in reality a ragtag group of reservists, retreads, and others of marginal (at best) competence.

In the film, Bentine, Milligan and Sellers repeated their radio characters, whereas Secombe's Neddy Seagoon was replaced with a less-raucous Harry Jones.

For good measure, there is also a music hall sketch by Michael Bentine (quite amusing), and several song and dance numbers with Carole Carr and twelve W.R.A.C.

chorines.”[6] In British Sound Films David Quinlan wrote: ''Crazy comedy with musical interludes introduces ‘Goons’; could have done with their radio scriptwrriters.

"[8] Kim Newman, writing in Empire, said: "A series of comedy sketches padded out with the odd song 'n' dance number does not a film make.