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Never have so few fiddled so many!
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.Read moreLess
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
The story
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.
Cast & crew
Alfred LynchHorace Pope
Sean ConneryPedlar Pascoe
Cecil ParkerGroup Capt. Bascombe
Stanley HollowayMr. Cooksley
Alan KingTop Sgt. Buzzer
Eric BarkerDoctor
Barbara WindsorMavis
Bill OwenCpl. Gittens
John Le MesurierHixon
Kathleen HarrisonMrs. Cooksley
Wilfrid Hyde-WhiteTrowbridgeExplore the crew
- Producer
- Benjamin Fisz
- Director
- Cyril Frankel
- Screenplay
- Harold Buchman
- Editor
- Peter R. Hunt
- Director of Photography
- Edward Scaife
- Original Music Composer
- Malcolm Arnold