Comedy
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.
Directed by
Roy Boulting, John Boulting
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Gerald Sim
Store Manager
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Steve Marriott
Jack (uncredited)
Joan Hickson
Housewife
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Rodney Bewes
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby
John Comer
Butcher
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer
Cardew Robinson
Tramp
Anna Wing
Housewife (uncredited)
John Junkin
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)
John Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
Harry Locke
Shop Steward
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Malcolm Muggeridge
Cleric
Jack Carter
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)

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