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Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale are council workmen mending the road outside an Army base when they come into conflict with the military. Shortly afterwards, they get drafted and fall into the clutches of the Sergeant they have just bested. They are sent to France to repair roads in front of the Allied advance but get captured. Pitkin takes advantage of a useful similarity to impersonate General Schreiber and manages to return a hero
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Norman Wisdom
Private Norman Pitkin / General Otto Schreiber
Honor Blackman
Junior Commander Lesley Cartland
Edward Chapman
Private Wilfred Grimsdale
Campbell Singer
Sergeant Loder
Hattie Jacques
Gretchen
Brian Worth
Henri Le Blanc
Terence Alexander
Captain Wharton
André Maranne
Jean-Claude
Frank Williams
Captain Ford
Richard Marner
German Officer
John G. Heller
German Officer at Gatepost
Roger Avon
Workman (uncredited)
Martin Boddey
Colonel (uncredited)
Jim Brady
Mr. Fred Ferndale (uncredited)
Terence Cooper
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Robert Desmond
Sentry (uncredited)
Robert Gillespie
German Soldier (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Workman (uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
Lorry Driver (uncredited)
Gordon Harris
Corporal (uncredited)
Victor Maddern
Motor Pool Corporal (uncredited)
Jim McManus
New Recruit (uncredited)
Oliver Reed
(uncredited)
Richard Warner
(uncredited)
Brian Wilde
New Recruit (uncredited)
Ian Wilson
Extra (uncredited)
John Paddy Carstairs
Director
Norman Wisdom
Screenplay
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Something of Love
Sayedaty El Gameela
Marriage Italian Style
The Four Troublesome Heads
Fortress of War
The One-Man Band
The Last Note
Their Purple Moment
Ambush
1944 The Final Defence
A Yank in the R.A.F.
People with Wings
Wunderland
Catch Us If You Can
Ardennes Fury
Werewolves of the Third Reich
Thanks Girls and Goodbye
Keechaka Vadham
My Soul Is a Witness
The Great Dictator
No Time for Sergeants
Went the Day Well?
The League of Gentlemen
Shadow of the Thin Man
49th Parallel
Block-Heads
Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story
Shoulder Arms
A Night in Casablanca
Buck Privates
The Bridge at Remagen
Oh! What a Lovely War
Hell Is for Heroes
Carry On Sergeant
Hannibal Brooks
Johnny English Strikes Again
Great Guns
A Walk in the Sun
What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?
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