The Magnificent Seven Deadly Sins is a 1971 British sketch comedy film directed and produced by Graham Stark.

It comprises a sequence of seven sketches, each representing a sin and written by an array of British comedy-writing talent, including Graham Chapman, Spike Milligan, Barry Cryer and Galton and Simpson.

In this segment, a 50p coin falls down a drain and Elsinore, a pompous rich man, orders his chauffeur Clayton to retrieve it.

In the end the rich man, seeing the sewage on the chauffeur, fires him but then falls straight into the open sewer.

Ambrose Twombly is determined to find a partner and chats up a woman in an adjoining telephone box by looking through the glass, dialling the number of her telephone and convincing her that he is someone from her past who just happens to be on a "crossed line" by some extraordinary coincidence, cleverly prompting her with some personal details he has managed to spot.

It was remade again in 1996 as an episode of Paul Merton in Galton & Simpson's.... "Sloth", is written by Spike Milligan.

It features a series of silent black and white film clips, with dialogue captions, where people chose to be inactive rather than pursuing a logical course.

On the other hand, they no longer have the fatal attraction of forbidden fruit, simply the lure of permissible vanities and indulgences – much like the invitation of modern advertising, in fact.

The film is very much a product of its time, with familiar television faces performing glorified sitcom (two of the segments are adaptations of TV episodes), while busty starlets remove their clothes.

"[3] British film critic Leslie Halliwell said: "Compendium of comedy sketches, a very variable ragbag of old jokkes.