Movielogr
The Square Peg (1958)
Directed by John Paddy Carstairs
Overview
Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
Length 89 minutes
Actors
Norman Wisdom | Honor Blackman | Edward Chapman | Campbell Singer | Hattie Jacques | Brian Worth | Terence Alexander | John Warwick | Arnold Bell | Victor Beaumont | André Maranne | Frank Williams | Eddie Leslie | Richard Marner | John G. Heller | Roger Avon | William Baskiville | Jim Beasley | Alan Beaton | Martin Boddey | Jim O'Brady | Aza Caralova | Alf Casha | Jimmy Charters | Michael Collins | Mike Conner | Terence Cooper | Dan Cressey | Robert Desmond | Ernest Fennemore | Chick Fowles | Frank Fry | Robert Gillespie | Harold Goodwin | Fred Griffiths | Aidan Harrington | Gordon Harris | Derek Holmes | Lindsay Hooper | Barry Johns | Dickey Luck | Victor Maddern | Terence Maidment | Vicky Marshall | Sheila McGibbon | Jim McManus | Geremy Phillips | Oliver Reed | Frank Schock | Arnold Schulkes | George Spence | Hazel Sutton | Jack Taylor | Reg Thomason | Richard Warner | Brian Wilde | Ian Wilson | Stephen Zammit