Very Important Person

Sir Ernest Pease is a scientist with a high opinion of himself. He has developed a new radar. He wants to see whether the invention works. For that he joins a bombing flight undercover. When the plane is attacked he parachutes out. He survives, but ends up in a prisoner of war camp. In the camp he gives himself the name Lieutenant Farrow. The British there are a fairly easygoing group. They suspect this sharp new arrival of being a spy. From then on a run of misunderstandings begins. James Robertson Justice and Leslie Phillips take the leads, with Stanley Baxter and Eric Sykes also in the cast, in Ken Annakin’s British film of 1961.