Very Important Person
- 1961 film
1961 film spoofing stiff-upper-lipped war dramas, starring James Robertson Justice as a bombastic scientist who ends up in a PoW camp. Also features Leslie Phillips, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Richard Wattis, Colin Gordon and more.
Very Important Person
Very Important Person (1962) is an escape comedy set in World War 2, starring the likes of James Robertson-Justice, Stanley Baxter 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 ascerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.
First released: Monday 18th October 2004
Extra features
- Audio commentary with comedy historian Robert Ross and star Leslie Phillips
DVD- Distributor: Granada Media
- Region: 2
- Discs: 1
- Subtitles: English
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