Main Cast: Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Alan King
Release Year: 1961
Country: UK
Run Time: 97 minutes
Plot
Alfred Lynch and Sean Connery star as a pair of klutzy RAF members, during World War II, who are more interested in running petty confidence scams that toting rifles. Though they doggedly avoid extra effort of any kind, Pope (Lynch) and Pascoe (Connery) are sent on a top-secret mission. The more the duo screws up, the more they succeed in pulling off their assignment, and through no real input of their own they become heroes. On the Fiddle more closely resembled an American service comedy than a British film, thus it was logical that its U.S. title was Operation SNAFU. During the James Bond craze, the film was retitled Operation Warhead and Sean Connery's participation was played up in the ads -- complete with the anachronistic inclusion of bikini-clad starlets! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Eric Barker - Doctor; Kathleen Harrison - Mrs. Cooksley; Eleanor Summerfield - Flora McNaughton; Terence Longdon - Air Gunner; Victor Maddern - 1st Airman; Harry Locke - Huxtable; John Le Mesurier - Hixon; Viola Keats - Sister; Peter Sinclair - Mr. Pope; Jack Lambert - Police Constable; Cyril Smith - Ticket Collector; Graham Stark - Sgt. Ellis; Miriam Karlin - WAAF Sergeant; Bill Owen - Corporal Gittens; Ian Whittaker - Lancing; Barbara Windsor - Mavis; Toni Palmer - Ivy; Kenneth J. Warren - Dusty; Ann Beach - Iris; Gary Cockrell - US Snowdrop; Harold Goodwin - Cpl. Reeves; Thomas Heathcote - Sergeant; Wilfrid Hyde-White - Trowbridge; Scott Hylands; Simon Lack - Flight Lt. Baldwin; Monte Landis - Conductor; Beatrix Lehmann - Lady Edith; Priscilla Morgan; Edna Morris - Lil; Lance Percival - MacTaggart; Patsy Rowlands; Jack Smethurst; Marianne Stone; Michael Sarne; Jean Aubrey - WAAF Corporal; Stuart Saunders; Brian Weske - Corporal; Richard Hart
Credit
John Blezard - Art Director, Cyril Frankel - Director, Peter Hunt - Editor, Malcolm Arnold - Composer (Music Score), Malcolm Arnold - Musical Direction/Supervision, Danny Arnold - Musical Direction/Supervision, Wally Schneiderman - Makeup, Edward Scaife - Cinematographer, Benjamin S. Fisz - Producer, Harold Buchman - Screenwriter, R.F. Delderfield - Book Author
