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The Square Peg

6.4 89 mins War   Comedy   1958
The Rank Organisation  
Director(s): John Paddy Carstairs

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

Casts of The Square Peg

Norman Wisdom

as Norman Pitkin / General Schreiber

Edward Chapman

as Mr Grimsdale

Honor Blackman

as Lesley Cartland

Campbell Singer

as Sergeant Loder

Hattie Jacques

as Gretchen

Brian Worth

as Henri Le Blanc

Frank Williams

as Captain Ford

Terence Alexander

as Captain Wharton

John Warwick

as Colonel Layton

Arnold Bell

as General Hunt

Robert Desmond

as Sentry (uncredited)

André Maranne

as Jean-Claude

John G. Heller

as German Officer at Gatepost

Michael Collins

as Airman Handing Out Tea (uncredited)

Oliver Reed

as (uncredited)

Brian Wilde

as New Recruit (uncredited)

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