Very Important Person

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Movie Info

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

Rating:

NR
Genre:

Classics, Comedy
Directed By:

Ken Annakin, Kenn Annakin
In Theaters:

Jul 30, 1962 wide
On Disc/Streaming:

Jan 29, 2008
Runtime:

98 minutes

Cast

Leslie Phillips
as Jimmy Cooper

Stanley Baxter
as Everett/Maj. Stampfel

Eric Sykes
as Willoughby

Richard Wattis
as Woodcock

Godfrey Winn
as Himself an Interviewer

Colin Gordon
as Briggs

Joan Haythorne
as Miss Rogers

John Forrest
as Grassy Green

Jeremy Lloyd
as "Bonzo" Baines

Peter Myers
as Shaw

John Ringham
as Plum Pouding

John Le Mesurier
as Piggott

Norman Bird
as Travers

Vincent Ball
as Higgins

Ed Devereaux
as Webber

Ronald Leigh-Hunt
as Clynes

Nancy Nevinson

Brian Oulton
as Scientist

James Robertson Justice
as Sir Ernest Pease

Ronnie Stevens
as Hankley

Heidi Erich
as German Fraus

Jean Cadell

Joseph Fürst

Mark Hardy

Frederick Piper

Steve Plytas

John Huson

Norman Shelley

Lesley Allen

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Critic Reviews for Very Important Person

All Critics (1) | Rotten (1)

What's really wrong isn't so much the film's tastelessness as its general lack of talent for comedy: a depressingly national lack, in film circles.

Jul 13, 2018 | Full Review…

Isabel Quigly
The Spectator