The Square Peg (1958)
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
War, Comedy
Cast
- 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
- John Warwick — Colonel Layton
- Arnold Bell — General Hunt
- Victor Beaumont — Jogenkraut
- André Maranne — Jean-Claude
- Frank Williams — Captain Ford
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