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    Night We Dropped a Clanger, The (1959)

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    When German V1 rockets start to fall on England, Air Vice Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser (Cecil Parker) insists there is only one man for the job – the celebrated and much bemedalled suave secret service man, Wing Commander Blenkinsop (Brian Rix, the star of the successful Whitehall theatre farces).

    A daring masterplan is hatched to send a double of the Wing Commander to North Africa while he secretly flies to France.

    The fate of the project, indeed of Britain, depends on the double – Aircraftsman Arthur Atwood (also Brian Rix), presently on latrine duties somewhere in England.

    Needless to say, the plans get mixed up, and the incompetent Atwood parachutes into France and leads the secret mission, while the real agent is sent to Cairo as a decoy.

    The run-of-the-mill comedy – a poor-mans parody of I Was Monty’s Double – is rescued by a number of brief cameos from William Hartnell, Leslie Phillips, Liz Fraser (in an eye-popping performance as a nightclub singer), Hattie Jacques and Irene Handl.

    Released in the USA as Make Mine a Double.

    Aircraftsman Arthur Atwood/Wing Commander Blenkinsop
    Brian Rix
    Air Vice Marshal Sir Bertram Bukpasser
    Cecil Parker
    Warrant Officer Bright
    William Hartnell
    Squadron Leader Thomas
    Leslie Phillips
    Belling
    Leo Franklyn
    Squadron Leader Grant
    John Welsh
    Flight Lieutenant Spendal
    Toby Perkins
    Madame Grilby
    Vera Pearce
    Lulu
    Liz Fraser
    General Gimble
    Charles Cameron
    Air Marshal Carruthers
    Julian D’Albie
    Admiral Bewdly
    Arthur Brough
    Air Commodore Turner
    Oliver Johnston
    Ada
    Hattie Jacques
    Ricky
    John Langham
    Smythe
    Roland Bartrop
    WAAF Hawkins
    Sarah Branch
    Hammerstein
    Denis Shaw
    Fritz
    Patrick Cargill
    Corporal Parker
    Keith Banks
    Wing Commander Jones
    Arnold Bell
    Wing Commander Priestly
    David Williams
    AC2 Briggs
    Andrew Sachs
    Mrs Billingsgate
    Irene Handl
    Butler
    David Stoll
    Monty’s Double
    Geoffrey Denys

    Director
    Darcy Conyers

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