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A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut...
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- verified Status: Released
- calendar_month Release Date: 1963-05-20
- video_camera_front Companies Romulus Films, Charter Film Productions
- timer Runtime: 118 Mins
- star Rating: 6.3 / 10
- favorite Likes: 23 Likes
- info IMDB ID tt0057134
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Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer
Joan Hickson
Housewife
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Comer
Butcher
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Malcolm Muggeridge
Cleric
Harry Locke
Shop Steward
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby
Nicholas Phipps
DG
Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive
Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer
Cardew Robinson
Tramp
Gerald Sim
Store Manager
Anna Wing
Housewife (uncredited)
John Junkin
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)
Rodney Bewes
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Steve Marriott
Jack (uncredited)
Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)
groups Crew
John Boulting
Director
Roy Boulting
Director
Teddy Darvas
Editor
Roy Boulting
Producer
John Boulting
Producer
Mutz Greenbaum
Director of Photography
Frank Harvey
Screenplay
John Boulting
Screenplay
Malcolm Muggeridge
Idea
Richard Rodney Bennett
Original Music Composer
Laurie Ridley
Still Photographer
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