
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
Trailer
Cast

Colin Gordon
Briggs

Steve Plytas
Luftwaffe Officer

Richard Marner
German Guard (uncredited)

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

Eric Sykes
Sports Officer Willoughby

Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Clynes

Vincent Ball
Higgins (uncredited)

Leslie Phillips
Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper

Norman Bird
Senior British Officer Travers

Ed Devereaux
Webber (uncredited)

Richard Wattis
Entertainments Officer Woodcock

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

Norman Shelley
Fred Whittaker

Nancy Nevinson
German Frau (uncredited)

Peter Myers
Flying Officer P.R. Shaw

Joseph Fürst
Luftwaffe Interrogator

John Le Mesurier
Escape Officer Piggott

Ronnie Stevens
Hankley

Jean Cadell
Mrs. MacDougall

Brian Oulton
Scientist in Corridor

Archie Duncan
Scottish Captain (uncredited)

David Webb
Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Derek Aylward
Stagehand (uncredited)

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

Frederick Piper
Scientist in Corridor

Fred Haggerty
German Guard (uncredited)

John Forrest
Lieutenant Hans "'Grassy' Green" Kringling