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
John Boulting, Roy Boulting
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
John Comer
Butcher
Joan Hickson
Housewife
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Harry Locke
Shop Steward
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer
Gerald Sim
Store Manager
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Junkin
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)
Anna Wing
Housewife (uncredited)
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
John Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Rodney Bewes
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive
Cardew Robinson
Tramp
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Steve Marriott
Jack (uncredited)
Malcolm Muggeridge
Cleric
Jack Carter
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)

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