Upper-class innocent Stanley Windrush (Ian Carmichael) has to interrupt his university education when he is called up in 1942 and falls in with a gang of spivs in the Army – including crafty Private Cox (Richard Attenborough).
Stanley gets a posting to train as a Japanese interpreter but is contacted by his uncle, a Brigadier (Dennis Price) to join a secret operation which is, in fact, a scam to steal looted artworks from the Germans and sell them on to crooked art dealers.
Terry-Thomas is terrific as the pompous Major who despairs that his men are “an absolute shower”.
Narrator
E.V.H. Emmett Private Stanley Windrush
Ian Carmichael Private Percival Henry Cox
Richard Attenborough Brigadier Bertram Tracepurcel
Dennis Price Major Hitchcock
Terry-Thomas Arthur Egan
Peter Jones Sergeant Sutton
William Hartnell Captain Henry Bootle
Thorley Walters Prudence Greenslade
Jill Adams Private Horrocks
Ian Bannen Private George Blake
Victor Maddern Private Dai Jones
Kenneth Griffith Sergeant-Major Gradwick
John Warren Pat
Derrick de Marney Mr Spottiswood
Henry Longhurst Mr Windrush Sr
Miles Malleson Catherine
Sally Miles Gerald
David King-Wood Colonel Fanshawe
Michael Trubshawe Psychiatrist
John Le Mesurier General Tomlinson
Robert Raglan Major Schultz
Christopher Lee Colonel Argent
Basil Dignam Lance Corporal Parsons
David Lodge Sidney
Michael Ward General Von Lembeck
Ludwig Lawinsky Miss Sugden
Marianne Stone Colonel Lench
Peter Stephens Face Ache
Gerald Fox
Director
John Boulting
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