Very Important Person DVD (1961)

Very Important Person

1961

Overall rating: 3.5 out of 5

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Comedy set in World War Two, starring James Robertson-Justice 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 acerbic new fellow prisoner of being a spy, and all sorts of culture clashes and misunderstandings ensue.

Very Important Person details

Format:	PG DVD
Starring:	James Robertson Justice, Godfrey Winn, Stanley Baxter, Eric Sykes, Colin Gordon, Richard Wattis, Jeremy Lloyd, John Le Mesurier, John Le Mesurier, Norman Bird, Ed Devereaux, John Forrest, Leslie Phillips
Director:	Ken Annakin
Genre:	Comedy - British
Studio:	NETWORK

DVD 1 disc

Name	Discs
Very Important Person	PG Feature

DVD Information

Run time:	1 hour 4 minutes
Rental release:	Not available for rental
Main languages:	English

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A gentle POW escape

By a customer from London, England , 21 Oct 2005

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This is a gentle POW escape. Don't expect side splitting laughs but story holds togeather very well with less emphasis on the 'escape' and more on the relationships involved, in particular the conflicts between the behaviour and bearing of the over educated upper class professor and the lower-middle class soliders.
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Very likable comedy

By RJNeb2 (924 reviews) from London , 30 Aug 2012

Quite a spritely comedy that gives James Robertson Justice an absolutely plum role as a disdainful scientist who finds himself in a POW camp during WWII and is none too pleased about such a minor inconvenience. A flurry of stalwart British support players fill out the rest of the film but this is really Justice’s show.
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Very entertaining, great acting, funny.

By Maeve. A choosy viewer from London , 15 Mar 2007

We like to give the old films a try and now and again we hit on a good one.

This gave us a good evening's entertainment. Very well made and acted, with a host of old stars. Some old films can be just as good as the new and all the more amusing when their antiquity seems to add to the interest rather than detract! James R. Justice makes such a strongly convincing, larger than life character.
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Excellent

By a customer from London, England , 27 Sep 2006

For James Robertson Justice fans, this film is a fantastic display of the star on ueber-nonchalant form.

Leslie Phillips and John Le Mesurier to boot.

Classic.
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By STEPHEN RENNELL from walsall , 25 Apr 2006

a very good film and i would watch it again
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Classic British Comedy

By mark andrews from Sussex , 09 Jan 2006

I had'nt seen this film for many years, very enjoyable, a fine British cast and a original and funny story line. James Robertson Justice is superb in this film - well worth watching.
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