He and his friend Spike Donnelly decide to go to the same shabby seaside boarding house that they have always patronised for their summer holiday, but this year all the other guests, including two young women out to marry money, a dodgy investment advisor and a master forger and assistant, are intent on taking the fortune off them in one way or another.

Justice is served when the chief forger boasts of his crime in front of what he thinks are two waxwork policemen, but who turn out to be real members of the force.

[citation needed] A 16 mm copy of Penny Points to Paradise was discovered in 2006 in the archives of Adelphi Films, and in 2007 a 64-minute partial restoration was screened at BFI Southbank.

Funding from an American Sellers fan made it possible to attempt a full restoration, using the 16mm print as a reference copy and working from the various incomplete 35mm archive sources.

This exuberant tale of a football pools fortune, in fivers, in a suitcase, in a fireplace of a Brighton guest house, is the sort of comedy to break records in industrial areas, where tired crowds ask for nothing better than a good hearty laugh at the end of the day.

"[8] Sight and Sound wrote: "Penny Points to Paradise is good-natured pre-Goons slapstick, made on the cheap by Adelphi Films and remarkably similar in tone and humour to Marcel Varnel's comedies of the 1930s.