Norman (Norman Wisdom) is a hapless stock boy at an opulent London department store, but he dreams of someday being promoted to be the designer of display windows. While his antics have caught the eye of pretty young shopgirl Sally Wilson (Lana Morris), he hasn't yet garnered much notice from his superiors. But Norman is a man with a plan. Upon uncovering a thief's plot to rob the store, Norman decides to thwart the heist himself, in hopes of becoming a hero to his bosses and the lovely Sally.
Working at the direction of George Mills, brothers Ed and Tony Wells hijack a panel truck carrying valuable paintings purchased by wealthy art collector Carter Giles. As Giles' trusted business manager, Mills provided the two with inside information concerning the truck's route. The plan was to steal the paintings and hold them for $500,000 in ransom, but the panel truck driver manages to escape in the Wells brothers' car and notify the Highway Patrol. The brothers panic, hijack a pickup truck, and escape after killing the driver and abandoning the paintings. Mills reluctantly agrees to hide the two at a house in the city, but when Dan Mathews convinces Giles to "pay" the ransom, Mills is certain that the Wells brothers have double-crossed him. Mills travels to the house to confront the brothers with a gun, unaware that Dan and Officer Dorsey are tailing him in the hope that he will lead them to the brothers and expose his own involvement.
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