Very Important Person

Very Important Person (1961)

Even the GERMAN ARMY couldn't fight this...

Sir Ernest Pease is a self-important scientist 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.

Date of release
1961-04-24
TMDB
5.5 / 10 (12)
Runtime
1h 38m
Genres
War, Comedy
Director
Ken Annakin

Casting

Interesting facts

Very Important Person is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Ken Annakin and written by Jack Davies and Henry Blyth. The cast includes several well-known British comedy and character actors, including James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter in a dual role as dour Scottish prisoner Jock Everett and German prisoner-of-war camp officer Major Stampfel, Eric Sykes, John Le Mesurier, Leslie Phillips and Richard Wattis.

Production

Ken Annakin had just made Swiss Family Robinson and was trying to make other films as a follow-up. Earl St. John had been brought the script by David Tomlinson, who John Davis of Rank hated. However St. John felt the script was very commercial made the film through a subsidiary at Beaconfield. Annakin agreed to work on the script with Jack Davies and direct.

Filming started late November 1960. Annakin said "what we want to do is look at the humour of the last war through 1960 eyes."

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