Very Important Person

Colin Gordon, Eric Sykes, James Robertson Justice, Jean Cadell, Jeremy Lloyd ...( see more  ) , John Forrest , John Le Mesurier , Leslie Phillips , Norman Bird , Peter Myers , Richard Wattis , Ronald Leigh-Hunt , Ronnie Stevens , Stanley Baxter

Set during World War II, director Ken Annakin's mordant British comedy stars James Robertson Justice as a cantankerous, conceited scientist who's incarcerated after his plane is shot down in enemy ter...( read more  )ritory. When his fellow prisoners discover that his radar invention is of strategic importance, they conspire to help him escape at all costs. The supporting cast includes Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter and Eric Sykes.