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
Thomas Heathcote
as Sergeant
Eric Barker
as Doctor
Wilfrid Hyde-White
as Trowbridge
Terence Longdon
as Air Gunner
Anton Rodgers
as Soldier in Canteen (Uncredited)
Jack Smethurst
as Dai Tovey
Jack Lambert
as Police Constable
Cyril Smith
as Ticket Collector
Kenneth J. Warren
as Dusty
Jean Aubrey
as Waaf Corporal
Gary Cockrell
as U.S. Snowdrop
Timothy Bateson
as Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Alan King
as Top Sgt. Buzzer, T/Sgt Buzzer
Harold Goodwin
as Corporal Reeves
Eleanor Summerfield
as Flora McNaughton
Miriam Karlin
as Waaf Sergeant
Bill Owen
as Cpl. Gittens
Kathleen Harrison
as Mrs. Cooksley
Marianne Stone
as Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Beatrix Lehmann
as Lady Edith
Harry Locke
as Huxtable
Brian Weske
as Corporal
Alfred Lynch
as Horace Pope
Cecil Parker
as Group Capt. Bascombe, Gr/Cpt Bascombe
Victor Maddern
as 1st Airman
Monte Landis
as Conductor
Toni Palmer
as Ivy
Sean Connery
as Pedlar Pascoe
John Le Mesurier
as Hixon
Lance Percival
as MacTaggart (Uncredited)
Graham Stark
as Sgt. Ellis
Neil Hallett
as 1st Australian
Ann Beach
as Iris
Barbara Windsor
as Mavis
Viola Keats
as Sister
Stanley Holloway
as Mr. Cooksley
Michael Sarne
as German Officer
Liz Fraser
as Girl with Daisies (Uncredited)
Hugh Lloyd
as ARP Warden (Uncredited)
Philip Madoc
as Soldier (Uncredited)
