
Very Important Person
1 hour 38 minutes1961-04-24
5.7
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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.
Cast

James Robertson Justice
Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN

Leslie Phillips
Jimmy Cooper

Stanley Baxter
'Jock' Everett / Kommondant Stamfel

Eric Sykes
Willoughby, Sports Officer

John Le Mesurier
Piggott, Escape Officer

Richard Wattis
Woodcock, Entertainments Officer

Colin Gordon
Briggs

Norman Bird
Travers

Jeremy Lloyd
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC

John Ringham
P/OGS 'Plum' Pouding

Joseph Fürst
Luftwaffe Interrogator

Brian Oulton
1st Scientist in Corridor
