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Very Important Person

1961
Directed byKen Annakin
1h 38m

Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is sent undercover on a bombing mission to monitor the effectiveness of his latest invention, a new-fangled radar. When the plane is attacked, he parachutes to safety - only to be sent to a POW camp, where he takes on the alias of Lieutenant Farrow. There, the somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits suspect their acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.

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James Robertson JusticeSir Ernest "Lieutenant M.J. Farrow, RN" Pease, KBE, FRSLeslie Phillips
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Jeremy LloydFlight Lieutenant J.J. "Bonzo" Baines, DFC
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WarComedy
STATUSReleased
RATING
5.2

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