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

Horace Pope

Sean Connery

Pedlar Pascoe

Cecil Parker

Group Capt. Bascombe

Stanley Holloway

Mr. Cooksley

Alan King

Top Sgt. Buzzer

Eric Barker

Doctor

Barbara Windsor

Mavis

Bill Owen

Cpl. Gittens

John Le Mesurier

Hixon

Kathleen Harrison

Mrs. Cooksley

Wilfrid Hyde-White

Trowbridge

Terence Longdon

Air Gunner

Lance Percival

MacTaggart (Uncredited)

Kenneth J. Warren

Dusty

Anton Rodgers

Soldier in Canteen (Uncredited)

Jack Smethurst

Dai Tovey

Victor Maddern

1st Airman

Harry Locke

Huxtable

Graham Stark

Sgt. Ellis

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