Very Important Person (1961)
- Starring:
- Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, (more)
- Director(s):
- Ken Annakin
- Format(s):
- DVD
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Synopsis of Very Important Person
Very Important Person is an amusing British comedy set in a German POW camp during World War II. Sir Ernest Pease (James Robertson Justice) is a self-important professor with a bloated ego and a lightning put-down. When he is flown over Germany disguised as a navy officer to check out the effectiveness of one of his radar inventions, his plane is shot down and he lands in the POW camp. All sorts of misunderstandings arise, since the other prisoners suspect him of being a spy. In the meantime, there are the expected clashes of wit between the British prisoners and their dour German captors and the inevitable camp-organized concert. In the midst of these activities, the professor is challenged to find a way to escape. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi
- Theatrical Feature Running Time:
- 90 mins
Complete Cast of Very Important Person
- Leslie Phillips - Jimmy Cooper
- Eric Sykes - Willoughby
- Godfrey Winn - Himself, an Interviewer
- Joan Haythorne - Miss Rogers
- Jeremy Lloyd - "Bonzo" Baines
- John Ringham - Plum Pouding
- Norman Bird - Travers
- Ed Devereaux - Webber
- Ronnie Stevens - Hankley
- John Huson
- Heidi Erich - German Fraus
- Steve Plytas
- Nancy Nevinson
- Frederick Piper
- Joseph Furst
- Stanley Baxter - Everett/Maj. Stampfel
- Richard Wattis - Woodcock
- Colin Gordon - Briggs
- John Forrest - Grassy Green
- Peter Myers - Shaw
- John Le Mesurier - Piggott
- Vincent Ball - Higgins
- Jean Cadell
- Lesley Allen
- Norman Shelley
- Mark Hardy
- James Robertson Justice - Sir Ernest Pease
- Brian Oulton - Scientist
- Ronald Leigh-Hunt - Clynes
- Director(s):
- Ken Annakin
- Writer(s):
- Jack Davies, Henry E. Blyth
- Producer(s):
- Julian Wintle, Leslie Parkyn
- Categories:
- Comedy
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