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The Square Peg

6.5 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 Private Norman Pitkin / General Otto Schreiber

Honor Blackman

as Junior Commander Lesley Cartland

Edward Chapman

as Private Wilfred Grimsdale

Campbell Singer

as Sergeant Loder

Hattie Jacques

as Gretchen

Brian Worth

as Henri Le Blanc

Terence Alexander

as Captain Wharton

John Warwick

as Colonel Layton

Arnold Bell

as General Hunt

Victor Beaumont

as Jogenkraut

André Maranne

as Jean-Claude

Frank Williams

as Captain Ford

Eddie Leslie

as Medical Officer

Richard Marner

as German Officer

John G. Heller

as German Officer at Gatepost

Roger Avon

as Workman (uncredited)

William Baskiville

as German Officer (uncredited)

Jim Beasley

as British Solider (uncredited)

Alan Beaton

as Lieutenant Colonel Bill (uncredited)

Martin Boddey

as Colonel (uncredited)

Jim Brady

as Mr. Fred Ferndale (uncredited)

Aza Caralova

as Café Patron (uncredited)

Alf Casha

as Café Patron (uncredited)

Jimmy Charters

as Mr. Harry Hoylake (uncredited)

Michael Collins

as Airman Handing Out Tea (uncredited)

Mike Conner

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Terence Cooper

as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Dan Cressey

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Robert Desmond

as Sentry (uncredited)

Ernest Fennemore

as New Recruit (uncredited)

Chick Fowles

as German Sentry (uncredited)

Frank Fry

as New Recruit (uncredited)

Robert Gillespie

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Harold Goodwin

as Workman (uncredited)

Fred Griffiths

as Lorry Driver (uncredited)

Aidan Harrington

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Gordon Harris

as Corporal (uncredited)

Derek Holmes

as Medical Corporal (uncredited)

Lindsay Hooper

as German Soldier (uncredited)

Barry Johns

as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Dickey Luck

as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Victor Maddern

as Motor Pool Corporal (uncredited)

Terence Maidment

as Paratrooper (uncredited)

Vicky Marshall

as WRAC (uncredited)

Sheila McGibbon

as Annie McQuillan (uncredited)

Jim McManus

as New Recruit (uncredited)

Geremy Phillips

as Soldier (uncredited)

Oliver Reed

as (uncredited)

Frank Schock

as Café Patron (uncredited)

Arnold Schulkes

as German Soldier (uncredited)

George Spence

as Mr. Charles Fenton Hopkins (uncredited)

Hazel Sutton

as Blonde (uncredited)

Jack Taylor

as Paratrooper in Pub (uncredited)

Reg Thomason

as German Sentry (uncredited)

Richard Warner

as (uncredited)

Brian Wilde

as New Recruit (uncredited)

Ian Wilson

as Extra (uncredited)

Stephen Zammit

as New Recruit (uncredited)

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