Very Important Person (1961)

Name: Very Important Person
Genre: War, Comedy
Released: 1961-04-24
Duration: 98 min
Cast: James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis

Even the GERMAN ARMY couldn't fight this...

Sir Ernest Pease is a self-important scientist sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety — only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.

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Released 1961-04-24 · 98 min · War, Comedy

Directed by Ken Annakin

Cast

James Robertson Justice as Sir Ernest "Lieutenant M.J. Farrow, RN" Pease, KBE, FRS
Leslie Phillips as Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper
Stanley Baxter as Flying Officer S. "Jock" Everett / Major Stamfel
Eric Sykes as Sports Officer Willoughby
Richard Wattis as Entertainments Officer Woodcock
Godfrey Winn as Self
Colin Gordon as Briggs
John Le Mesurier as Escape Officer Piggott
Norman Bird as Senior British Officer Travers
Jeremy Lloyd as Flight Lieutenant J.J. "Bonzo" Baines, DFC
John Forrest as Lieutenant Hans "'Grassy' Green" Kringling
Jean Cadell as Mrs. MacDougall
Peter Myers as Flying Officer P.R. Shaw
Ronnie Stevens as Hankley
Ronald Leigh-Hunt as Clynes