On the Fiddle (1961)
1h 27m
Running Time
October 10, 1961Release Date
On the Fiddle (1961)
1h 27m
Running Time
October 10, 1961Release Date
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Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Alfred Lynch
Horace Pope
Sean Connery
Pedlar Pascoe
Stanley Holloway
Mr. Cooksley
Victor Maddern
1st Airman
Harry Locke
Huxtable
John Le Mesurier
Hixon
Barbara Windsor
Mavis
Eric Barker
Doctor
Viola Keats
Sister
Bill Owen
Cpl. Gittens
Peter Sinclair
Mr. Pope
Edna Morris
Lil
Kathleen Harrison
Mrs. Cooksley
Wilfrid Hyde-White
Trowbridge
Thomas Heathcote
Sergeant
Cyril Frankel
Director
Patsy Rowlands
Evie
Terence Longdon
Air Gunner
R.F. Delderfield
Writer
Lance Percival
MacTaggart (Uncredited)
Harold Buchman
Writer
Benjamin Fisz
Producer
Kenneth J. Warren
Dusty
Anton Rodgers
Soldier in Canteen (Uncredited)
Malcolm Arnold
Composer
Edward Scaife
Cinematographer
Jack Smethurst
Dai Tovey
Peter R. Hunt
Editor
Graham Stark
Sgt. Ellis
Harold Goodwin
Corporal Reeves
Jean Aubrey
Waaf Corporal
Alan King
Top Sgt. Buzzer / T/Sgt Buzzer
Marianne Stone
Stretcher Bearer (Uncredited)
Brian Weske
Corporal
Jack Lambert
Police Constable
Cyril Smith
Ticket Collector
Cecil Parker
Group Capt. Bascombe / Gr/Cpt Bascombe
Simon Lack
Fl/Lt Baldwin
Eleanor Summerfield
Flora McNaughton
Miriam Karlin
Waaf Sergeant
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Wiki.
On the Fiddle (released as Operation Snafu and Operation War Head in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier. It was based on the 1961 novel Stop at a Winner by R.F. Delderfield who served in the RAF in World War II.
It was Sean Connery's tenth film and his first lead role, released the year before his big breakthrough as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No.