
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

Derek Aylward
Stagehand (uncredited)

Brian Oulton
Scientist in Corridor

Frederick Piper
Scientist in Corridor

Ed Devereaux
Webber (uncredited)

John Le Mesurier
Escape Officer Piggott

Nancy Nevinson
German Frau (uncredited)

Norman Bird
Senior British Officer Travers

Ronnie Stevens
Hankley

Vincent Ball
Higgins (uncredited)

Archie Duncan
Scottish Captain (uncredited)

David Webb
Prisoner of War (uncredited)

Richard Wattis
Entertainments Officer Woodcock

Joseph Fürst
Luftwaffe Interrogator

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

Colin Gordon
Briggs

Steve Plytas
Luftwaffe Officer

Jean Cadell
Mrs. MacDougall

Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Clynes

Norman Shelley
Fred Whittaker

Fred Haggerty
German Guard (uncredited)

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

Leslie Phillips
Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper

Peter Myers
Flying Officer P.R. Shaw

John Forrest
Lieutenant Hans "'Grassy' Green" Kringling

Richard Marner
German Guard (uncredited)

Eric Sykes
Sports Officer Willoughby

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