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    Very Important Person (1961)

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    A happy-go-lucky bunch of British prisoners in a German POW camp during World War II discover that their new acerbic fellow prisoner is high-ranking British aeronautical scientist Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) who they must help escape at all cost.

    The cast includes some of the most popular names in contemporary British cinema, including Leslie Phillips and Jeremy Lloyd as upper-class “tally-ho chaps” comic relief, Eric Sykes as a keep-fit fanatic, and Stanley Baxter playing dual roles as a temperamental Scottish prisoner and the unpleasant Nazi Kommandant.

    Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS/Lt. Farrow RN
    James Robertson Justice
    Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper DFC
    Leslie Phillips
    ‘Jock’ Everett/Kommandant Stamfel
    Stanley Baxter
    Willoughby, Sports Officer
    Eric Sykes
    Woodcock, Entertainments Officer
    Richard Wattis
    Godfrey Winn
    Himself
    Briggs
    Colin Gordon
    Piggott, Escape Officer
    John Le Mesurier
    Travers, Senior British Officer 
    Norman Bird
    Flt Lt. ‘Bonzo’ Baines DFC
    Jeremy Lloyd
    ‘Grassy’ Green
    John Forrest
    Shaw
    Peter Myers
    Hankley
    Ronnie Stevens
    Clynes 
    Ronald Leigh-Hunt

    Director
    Ken Annakin

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