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.
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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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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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Piggott, Escape Officer: Good grief!
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Jock's quote "We're all doomed..." predates by several years the same words used as the catch-phrase of John Laurie as Private Frazer, another constitutionally pessimistic Scotsman, in Dad's Army (1968), another 1960s comedy about World War 2. 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
Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC: I can't stay long sir, my bra is killing me.Piggott, Escape Officer: Good grief!
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James Robertson-Justice plays (Sir Ernest Pease.) an important scientist sent on a bombing mission to see how a raid goes. As we can all guess, the plane is attacked and he parachutes to safety only to be sent to a pow camp,where he takes on the alias of Lt Farrow. When the senior British officer learns who he is, Farrow is helped to escape.
The film is held together by Robertson-Justice, whose performance lifts the film out of the ordinary.