Very Important Person - Film - British Comedy Guide (original) (raw)
Genre
Released
Stars
James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Colin Gordon, John Le Mesurier, Norman Bird and more
Writers
Director
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
- 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