Very Important Person
Very Important Person
Release: 1961-04-24
·Runtime: 98m
·★ 5.2
War
Comedy
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is 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.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Independent Artists
Trailers & Videos
Cast
James Robertson Justice
as Sir Ernest "Lieutenant M.J. Farrow, RN" Pease, KBE, FRS
Nancy Nevinson
as German Frau (uncredited)
Eric Sykes
as Sports Officer Willoughby
John Le Mesurier
as Escape Officer Piggott
David Webb
as Prisoner of War (uncredited)
Jeremy Lloyd
as Flight Lieutenant J.J. "Bonzo" Baines, DFC
Ronnie Stevens
as Hankley
Norman Shelley
as Fred Whittaker
Leslie Phillips
as Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper
Brian Oulton
as Scientist in Corridor
Richard Wattis
as Entertainments Officer Woodcock
Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as Clynes
Richard Marner
as German Guard (uncredited)
Norman Bird
as Senior British Officer Travers
Steve Plytas
as Luftwaffe Officer
Frederick Piper
as Scientist in Corridor
Vincent Ball
as Higgins (uncredited)
Joseph Fürst
as Luftwaffe Interrogator
Derek Aylward
as Stagehand (uncredited)
John Forrest
as Lieutenant Hans "'Grassy' Green" Kringling
Ed Devereaux
as Webber (uncredited)
Stanley Baxter
as Flying Officer S. "Jock" Everett / Major Stamfel
Jean Cadell
as Mrs. MacDougall
Peter Myers
as Flying Officer P.R. Shaw
Colin Gordon
as Briggs
Archie Duncan
as Scottish Captain (uncredited)
