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The Beatles are kings of the hit parade; America and the USSR are the only superpowers - and the arrest and pending trial of Ronnie and Reggie Kray, self appointed Princes of the East End, dominate the headlines.

Our heroes are Kenny Smith and Danny Nash, a couple of local likely lads, accompanied by Danny’s girlfriend Carole, smart, pretty and with curves in all the right places. The Film follows their adventures as they try to find a buyer for a large lump of misappropriated uranium:

The Hot Potato…

One fine summer’s night, a Ministry of Defence facility in west London is virtually destroyed by an explosion and devastating fire.
The next evening, Danny turns up at Kenny’s scrap metal yard with a big shiny metal box he ‘found’ outside the perimeter of the MOD site while working there for the salvage company hired to clean up the mess.

Kenny is suspicious but intrigued and against his better judgement he agrees to cut the box open. Inside, they find it is lead lined and filled with fine black crystals, in the centre of which sits a large, potato shaped, lump of dull yellow metal.

Kenny lifts it out. It’s heavy. He gives it a polish but it remains dull. It’s not gold. Kenny and Danny are both mystified. Sparks fly as they try to saw into it! They send off the small amount of filings from the saw for analysis - which reveals it to be…

URANIUM!

Unaware of The Hot Potato’s true value but now realising the danger they’ve been exposed to, Kenny and Danny reluctantly embark on an adventure, which is both comedic and perilous. It soon becomes obvious that the market for this exotic metal is across the Channel.

So Danny and Carole smuggle the The Hot Potato into Europe, at one point burying it in a field outside Brussels with almost fatal results. In the midst of a high-speed car chase, Carole surprises the boys by revealing a hitherto unknown aptitude for gunplay, thus becoming a full member of the team.

Their escapades take them to places they would never have dreamed of, and into the company of an ever increasing assortment of shady and bizarre characters, all of whom are seemingly keen to become their “partners”.

Kenny then decides to hide The Hot Potato in a safety deposit box in a Swiss bank while they try to sort out the various deals and ’partnerships’ they have found themselves juggling.

The story twists back and forth across continental Europe, with double-dealing and doublecross at every turn, but our trio hold their nerve until the final deal is struck within the walls of the Vatican for an eight figure sum!

Danny is ready to celebrate, but events have overtaken them and the deal is shot to pieces. And Kenny has finally realised the significance of what they have in their control and how it could be misused.

He does a side deal with an undercover American ‘agent’ who is also hunting for the missing uranium. By doing this deal Kenny has ensured that he and his crew can go free but as usual, all is not what it seems.

In the chaos of the final act we see all the ‘partners’ revealed for what they really are. Our heroes, meanwhile, have had enough excitement for a lifetime and drive off into the sunset– back to Blighty and long and happy life.

But is that really the end of the story?

What of The Hot Potato?

The answer is finally revealed in the Film’s coda, set in the present day…