Operation Snafu (1961)
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Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more the duo screws up, the more they succeed in pulling off their assignment, and through no real input of their own they become heroes. On the Fiddle more closely resembled an American service comedy than a British film, thus it was logical that its U.S. title was Operation SNAFU. During the James Bond craze, the film was retitled Operation Warhead and Sean Connery's participation was played up in the ads -- complete with the anachronistic inclusion of bikini-clad starlets! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Alfred Lynch - Horace Pope
- Cecil Parker - Group Capt. Bascombe
- Alan King - Top Sergeant Buzzer
- Kathleen Harrison - Mrs. Cooksley
- Terence Longdon - Air Gunner
- Harry Locke - Huxtable
- Viola Keats - Sister
- Jack Lambert - Police Constable
- Graham Stark - Sgt. Ellis
- Bill Owen - Corporal Gittens
- Barbara Windsor - Mavis
- Kenneth J. Warren - Dusty
- Gary Cockrell - US Snowdrop
- Simon Lack - Flight Lt. Baldwin
- Patsy Rowlands
- Brian Weske - Corporal
- Jean Aubrey - WAAF Corporal
- Marianne Stone
- Lance Percival - MacTaggart
- Priscilla Morgan
- Thomas Heathcote - Sergeant
- Scott Hylands
- Sean Connery - Pedlar Pascoe
- Stanley Holloway - Mr. Cooksley
- Eric Barker - Doctor
- Eleanor Summerfield - Flora McNaughton
- Victor Maddern - 1st Airman
- John Le Mesurier - Hixon
- Peter Sinclair - Mr. Pope
- Cyril Smith - Ticket Collector
- Miriam Karlin - WAAF Sergeant
- Ian Whittaker - Lancing
- Toni Palmer - Ivy
- Ann Beach - Iris
- Harold Goodwin - Cpl. Reeves
- Beatrix Lehmann - Lady Edith
- Richard Hart
- Stuart Saunders
- Michael Sarne
- Jack Smethurst
- Edna Morris - Lil
- Monte Landis - Conductor
- Wilfrid Hyde-White - Trowbridge
- Director(s):
- Cyril Frankel
- Writer(s):
- Harold Buchman
- Producer(s):
- Benjamin S. Fisz
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