On the Fiddle (1961)

5.7/10 • 87 min • Comedy

Overview

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.

Cast

Alfred Lynch

Sean Connery

Cecil Parker

Group Capt. Bascombe

Stanley Holloway

Alan King

Top Sgt. Buzzer

Eric Barker

Barbara Windsor

Bill Owen

John Le Mesurier

Kathleen Harrison

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Terence Longdon

Lance Percival

MacTaggart (Uncredited)

Kenneth J. Warren

Anton Rodgers

Soldier in Canteen (Uncredited)

Jack Smethurst

Victor Maddern

Harry Locke

Graham Stark

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