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On the Fiddle (U.S. titles Operation Snafu and Operation War Head) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.
On the Fiddle: Directed by Cyril Frankel. With Alfred Lynch, Sean Connery, Victor Maddern, Harry Locke. During World War II, a street peddler invents a story about enlisting, which convinces the magistrate to send him to the RAF instead of prison.
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- Comedy, War
- Cyril Frankel
- 1965-01-27
Pope makes friends with the easy going but loyal Pedlar Pascoe, who happily goes along with all of his scams in an ...more. When he is pulled up in court for selling stuff on the street, Horace...
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Horace Pope (Alfred Lynch) is just an everyday street peddler when the authorities pick him up for practicing his trade. Not wanting to go to jail, Pope invents a story about enlisting in the ...
- (58)
- Dennis Schwartz
- Comedy
- Cyril Frankel
On the Fiddle is a good old fashioned light hearted comedy concerning wide boy Horace Pope (Lynch) who enlists into the RAF to escape a gaol sentence. Once there, he teams up with slow-witted gentle giant Pedlar Pascoe (Connery) a gypsy boy who is eager to give the Nazis what for, but is easily….
- Cyril Frankel
On the Fiddle (released as Operation Snafu and Operation War Head in the United States) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.
Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF.
