On The Fiddle. Image shows left to right: Pedlar Pascoe (Sean Connery), Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch). Credit: STUDIOCANAL
On The Fiddle

On The Fiddle

  • 1961 film

Forces comedy starring Alfred Lynch as a wide-boy desperate to make a bit of money and avoid conflict at all costs. Stars Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway and more.

On The Fiddle. Image shows left to right: Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch), Pedlar Pascoe (Sean Connery). Credit: STUDIOCANAL

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
1961
Stars
Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Alan King, Eleanor Summerfield and more
Writers
R.F. Delderfield and Harold Buchman
Director
Cyril Frankel
Producer
Benjamin Fisz
Company

The war is in full swing and London wide-boy Horace Pope is horrified when he's tricked into signing up to the RAF by a wily court-room judge. Pope quickly finds a friend in Pedlar Pascoe, a slow-witted but big-hearted willing serviceman of gypsy origin.

Pedlar had joined up with the full intention of seeing combat, but Pope has no such desires. He quickly begins putting his gift of the gab and knack for spotting a money-making opportunity to use, and the pair - now near inseparable - begin the rounds of British RAF bases, always making sure they stay one step ahead of their transfer papers to the front!

Through a series of craftily engineered postings, the loveable duo keep moving around the country for a good few years before an equally world-wise American Sergeant, Buzzer, catches up with them and serves them with a transfer to France - where they encounter the enemy at far closer quarters, and with a far more surprising outcome, than they could have ever begun to imagine.

Additional details

Tagline
Never have so few fiddled so many!
UK certificate
A
Duration
97 minutes
Distributors

Anglo Amalgamated

Production
Studio
Camera set-up
Single camera
Picture
Black and white
Soundtrack
Music composed and conducted by Malcolm Arnold.

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Broadcast details

Most recent repeats
  • Tuesday 5th March 2024 at 10:20am on TPTV
  • Friday 1st March 2024 at 2:10pm on TPTV
  • Thursday 24th June 2021 at 10:50am on TPTV

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