On the Fiddle
On the Fiddle
Release: 1961-10-10
·Runtime: 87m
·★ 5.3
Comedy
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Coronado Productions
American International Pictures
Anglo-Amalgamated
Cast
Stanley Holloway
as Mr. Cooksley
Kenneth J. Warren
as Dusty
Jack Smethurst
as Dai Tovey
Cyril Smith
as Ticket Collector
Miriam Karlin
as Waaf Sergeant
Alan King
as Top Sgt. Buzzer, T/Sgt Buzzer
Bill Owen
as Cpl. Gittens
John Le Mesurier
as Hixon
Ann Beach
as Iris
Gary Cockrell
as U.S. Snowdrop
Alfred Lynch
as Horace Pope
Eric Barker
as Doctor
Lance Percival
as MacTaggart (Uncredited)
Victor Maddern
as 1st Airman
Jean Aubrey
as Waaf Corporal
Viola Keats
as Sister
Jack Lambert
as Police Constable
Sean Connery
as Pedlar Pascoe
Barbara Windsor
as Mavis
Terence Longdon
as Air Gunner
Graham Stark
as Sgt. Ellis
Marianne Stone
as Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Brian Weske
as Corporal
Eleanor Summerfield
as Flora McNaughton
Anton Rodgers
as Soldier in Canteen (Uncredited)
Harry Locke
as Huxtable
Toni Palmer
as Ivy
Michael Sarne
as German Officer
Timothy Bateson
as Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Philip Madoc
as Soldier (Uncredited)
Cecil Parker
as Group Capt. Bascombe, Gr/Cpt Bascombe
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Trowbridge
Harold Goodwin
as Corporal Reeves
Monte Landis
as Conductor
Neil Hallett
as 1st Australian
Beatrix Lehmann
as Lady Edith
Liz Fraser
as Girl with Daisies (Uncredited)
Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs. Cooksley
Thomas Heathcote
as Sergeant
Hugh Lloyd
as ARP Warden (Uncredited)
