
Very Important Person
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.
Director Ken Annakin
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Cast

Richard Wattis
Entertainments Officer Woodcock

Colin Gordon
Briggs

Steve Plytas
Luftwaffe Officer

Jean Cadell
Mrs. MacDougall

Peter Myers
Flying Officer P.R. Shaw

Stanley Baxter
Flying Officer S. "Jock" Everett / Major Stamfel

Joseph Fürst
Luftwaffe Interrogator

Ed Devereaux
Webber (uncredited)

Archie Duncan
Scottish Captain (uncredited)

James Robertson Justice
Sir Ernest "Lieutenant M.J. Farrow, RN" Pease, KBE, FRS

Norman Bird
Senior British Officer Travers

Ronnie Stevens
Hankley

David Webb
Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Jeremy Lloyd
Flight Lieutenant J.J. "Bonzo" Baines, DFC

John Forrest
Lieutenant Hans "'Grassy' Green" Kringling

Richard Marner
German Guard (uncredited)

Vincent Ball
Higgins (uncredited)

Leslie Phillips
Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper

John Le Mesurier
Escape Officer Piggott

Fred Haggerty
German Guard (uncredited)

Derek Aylward
Stagehand (uncredited)

Eric Sykes
Sports Officer Willoughby

Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Clynes

Norman Shelley
Fred Whittaker

Brian Oulton
Scientist in Corridor

Frederick Piper
Scientist in Corridor

Nancy Nevinson
German Frau (uncredited)