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Very Important Person (1961)
Directed by Ken Annakin
Overview
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is 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.
Rated G | Length 98 minutes
Actors
James Robertson Justice | Leslie Phillips | Stanley Baxter | Eric Sykes | Richard Wattis | Godfrey Winn | Colin Gordon | John Le Mesurier | Norman Bird | Jeremy Lloyd | John Forrest | Jean Cadell | Peter Myers | Ronnie Stevens | Ronald Leigh-Hunt | Steve Plytas | John Ringham | Mark Hardy | John Huson | Joseph Fürst | Norman Shelley | Brian Oulton | Frederick Piper | Joan Haythorne | Heidi Erich | Lesley Allen | Derek Aylward | Vincent Ball | Ron Carr | Tony Castleton | Billy Cornelius | Dan Darnelli | Hugo de Vernier | Jack Dearlove | Ed Devereaux | Archie Duncan | Hugh Elton | Roy Everson | Ernest Fennemore | Chick Fowles | Fred Haggerty | Patrick Halpin | Peter Hannon | Victor Harrington | John Herrington | Norman Lambert | Barry Lowe | Ned Lynch | Fred Machon | Richard Marner | Nancy Nevinson | Ian Parsons | Cecil Paul | Keith Peacock | Joe Phelps | Charles Price | Prunella Smith | Reg Thomason | Martin Voss | Robert Vossler | David Webb | Winnie Wiblin | John Wilder