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The Square Peg
1958, Dec 04
1h 29m
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
Directed by
John Paddy Carstairs
Oliver Reed
(uncredited)
Honor Blackman
Junior Commander Lesley Cartland
Richard Marner
German Officer
Brian Wilde
New Recruit (uncredited)
Terence Alexander
Captain Wharton
Hattie Jacques
Gretchen
Victor Maddern
Motor Pool Corporal (uncredited)
Harold Goodwin
Workman (uncredited)
Norman Wisdom
Private Norman Pitkin / General Otto Schreiber
André Maranne
Jean-Claude
Edward Chapman
Private Wilfred Grimsdale
Campbell Singer
Sergeant Loder
Robert Gillespie
German Soldier (uncredited)
Martin Boddey
Colonel (uncredited)
Jim McManus
New Recruit (uncredited)
Roger Avon
Workman (uncredited)
Terence Cooper
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Richard Warner
(uncredited)
Brian Worth
Henri Le Blanc
Jim Brady
Mr. Fred Ferndale (uncredited)
Fred Griffiths
Lorry Driver (uncredited)
John G. Heller
German Officer at Gatepost
Frank Williams
Captain Ford
Gordon Harris
Corporal (uncredited)
Robert Desmond
Sentry (uncredited)
Ian Wilson
Extra (uncredited)
John Warwick
Colonel Layton
Arnold Bell
General Hunt
Victor Beaumont
Jogenkraut
Eddie Leslie
Medical Officer
William Baskiville
German Officer (uncredited)
Jim Beasley
British Solider (uncredited)
Alan Beaton
Lieutenant Colonel Bill (uncredited)
Aza Caralova
Café Patron (uncredited)
Alf Casha
Café Patron (uncredited)
Jimmy Charters
Mr. Harry Hoylake (uncredited)
Michael Collins
Airman Handing Out Tea (uncredited)
Mike Conner
German Soldier (uncredited)
Dan Cressey
German Soldier (uncredited)
Ernest Fennemore
New Recruit (uncredited)
Chick Fowles
German Sentry (uncredited)
Frank Fry
New Recruit (uncredited)
Aidan Harrington
German Soldier (uncredited)
Derek Holmes
Medical Corporal (uncredited)
Lindsay Hooper
German Soldier (uncredited)
Barry Johns
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Dickey Luck
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Terence Maidment
Paratrooper (uncredited)
Vicky Marshall
WRAC (uncredited)
Sheila McGibbon
Annie McQuillan (uncredited)
Geremy Phillips
Soldier (uncredited)
Frank Schock
Café Patron (uncredited)
Arnold Schulkes
German Soldier (uncredited)
George Spence
Mr. Charles Fenton Hopkins (uncredited)
Hazel Sutton
Blonde (uncredited)
Jack Taylor
Paratrooper in Pub (uncredited)
Reg Thomason
German Sentry (uncredited)
Stephen Zammit
New Recruit (uncredited)
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