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Very Important Person
- 1961 film
1961 film spoofing stiff-upper-lipped war dramas, starring James Robertson Justice as a bombastic scientist who ends up in a PoW camp. Also features Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Colin Gordon and more.
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Key details
- Genre
- Film
- Released
- 1961
- Stars
- James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Colin Gordon, John Le Mesurier, Norman Bird and more
- Writers
- Jack Davies and Henry Blyth
- Director
- Ken Annakin
- Producers
- Julian Wintle and Leslie Parkyn
- Company
Esteemed scientist and engineer Sir Earnest Farse is being honoured on television programme Memory Album when he is prompted to recall a somewhat eventful few months during the Second World War...
Sent on a top secret, undercover reconnaissance mission over Germany at the direct request of the War Cabinet, the Professor - then the Director of Applied Aeronautical Science at a high-tech research base - finds himself shot down and held by the Nazis at a PoW camp.
In the guise of Royal Navy Lieutenant Farrow, his presence, demeanour - and fluent German - initially raise his fellow captives' suspicions, but when a coded order from Churchill himself arrives insisting that Farrow be helped to escape as a priority, it's all hands on deck to assist the crotchety genius's plans.
Additional details
- UK certificate
- U
- Duration
- 94 minutes
- UK release
- Tuesday 25th April 1961
- Distributors
- Also known as
-
- A Coming-Out Party (US title)
- Production
- Studio
- Camera set-up
- Single camera
- Picture
- Black and white
Website links
Broadcast details
- Most recent repeats
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- Monday 15th June 2020 at 1:15pm on TPTV
- Tuesday 17th March 2020 at 3:05pm on TPTV
- Sunday 8th December 2019 at 12:00pm on TPTV
Recording details
- Independent Artists Studios