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| James Robertson Justice | ... | Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN | |
| Leslie Phillips | ... | Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper DFC | |
| Stanley Baxter | ... | 'Jock' Everett / Kommondant Stamfel | |
| Eric Sykes | ... | Willoughby, Sports Officer | |
| Richard Wattis | ... | Woodcock, Entertainments Officer | |
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Godfrey Winn | ... | Himself |
| Colin Gordon | ... | Briggs | |
| John Le Mesurier | ... | Piggott, Escape Officer | |
| Norman Bird | ... | Travers, Senior British Officer | |
| Jeremy Lloyd | ... | Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC | |
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John Forrest | ... | 'Grassy' Green |
| Jean Cadell | ... | Lady Telling Story on TV show - Opening Scene | |
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Peter Myers | ... | P / O P R Shaw |
| Ronnie Stevens | ... | Hankley | |
| Ronald Leigh-Hunt | ... | Clynes (as Ronald Leigh Hunt) | |
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A somewhat happy-go-lucky bunch of Brits in a German POW camp find their new acerbic fellow prisoner is a key officer who must be got out at all cost. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}
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Even the GERMAN ARMY couldn't fight this... See more »Genres:
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Country:
UKRelease Date:
11 September 1961 (Sweden) See more »Also Known As:
A Coming-Out Party See more »Filming Locations:
Independent Artists Studios, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England, UK See more »Company Credits
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Woodcock, Entertainments Officer: Shhhh!
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: He plans to impersonate the Swiss commission.
Piggott, Escape Officer: That's ridiculous - there are three of them.
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: Yes, well, Cooper and I have volunteered to be the other two.
Piggott, Escape Officer: That's suicide.
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: He's got it all worked out. He wants a plan of the camp and a description of the Commission.
Woodcock, Entertainments Officer: Will you two stop talking! Here am I trying to do a worthwhile job and all you can do is gossip...
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Opening credits: All characters and events in this film are fictitious. Any similarity to actual events or persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. See more »Goofs
When the Times Crossword is first introduced to the prisoners, the clue for 1 Across is stated as "What did Jupiter drop?" However, when Farrow has completed it, we see the 1 Across clue as "Preserve of Fiction" (solution:"ramjam"). Furthermore, the crossword is numbered #4548 whilst the solution to the previous day's crossword = #9547 - the leading "9" having been amended to a "4". See more »Quotes
Piggott, Escape Officer: I want you to take a message to Farrow. If we can notify London of the day he plans to escape, they'll lay on an agent to pick him up.Woodcock, Entertainments Officer: Shhhh!
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: He plans to impersonate the Swiss commission.
Piggott, Escape Officer: That's ridiculous - there are three of them.
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: Yes, well, Cooper and I have volunteered to be the other two.
Piggott, Escape Officer: That's suicide.
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: He's got it all worked out. He wants a plan of the camp and a description of the Commission.
Woodcock, Entertainments Officer: Will you two stop talking! Here am I trying to do a worthwhile job and all you can do is gossip...
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Very Important Person combines elements of the Carry On films, The Great Escape and Hogan's Heroes to produce a lighthearted low budget British Comedy that is surprisingly effective. Many of the stalwarts from this era are here with John Le Mesurier, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes in supporting roles. I wouldn't have been at all surprised to see Sid James turning up somewhere.
James Roberson Justice is excellent in his role as the cantankerous Very Important Person. There are lots of stiff upper lips and "tickety boos" from the British and the German officers are typically cast as foolish buffoons. This must have all been an inspiration for Hogan's Heroes but a very long way from the reality of prisoner of war camps.
Overall, VIP is a fine example of British Comedy from the 60s and is well worth a look.