Very Important Person (1961)
1h 38m
Running Time
April 24, 1961Release Date
Very Important Person (1961)
1h 38m
Running Time
April 24, 1961Release Date
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Plot.
Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice and Leslie Phillips. Sir Ernest Pease (Robertson-Justice) is a self-important scientist who is 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.
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Cast & Crew.
James Robertson Justice
Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN
Leslie Phillips
Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper DFC
Stanley Baxter
'Jock' Everett / Kommondant Stamfel
John Le Mesurier
Piggott, Escape Officer
Eric Sykes
Willoughby, Sports Officer
Ken Annakin
Director
Richard Wattis
Woodcock, Entertainments Officer
Jack Davies
Writer
Colin Gordon
Briggs
Henry Blyth
Writer
Norman Bird
Travers
Jeremy Lloyd
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC
John Ringham
P/OGS 'Plum' Pouding
Leslie Parkyn
Producer
Joseph Fürst
Luftwaffe Interrogator
Julian Wintle
Producer
Details.
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Wiki.
Very Important Person (retitled A Coming Out Party in the United States) 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 a dour Scottish prisoner and a German prisoner-of-war camp officer, Eric Sykes, John Le Mesurier, Leslie Phillips and Richard Wattis.
The film had its world premiere on 20 April 1961 at the Leicester Square Theatre in London's West End and went on general release in late May on Rank's second string National circuit.
It was released in the U.S. as Coming-Out Party.