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About
A clerical error leads to the appointment of a left-leaning small-town priest to a rich village, where he immediately horrifies his snobby parishioners by appointing a dustman and a black man as vicar's wardens and throwing open the vicarage to the sprawling, disreputable Smith family, who have just been evicted from their caravan site. He converts the dowager aristocrat to works of absurd charity but he soon has the town and much of the country in uproar.
Theatrical
May 20, 1963
DVD / Blu-ray
Jan 21, 2003
Directors
Writers
Producers
Music
Studio
Romulus Films, Charter Film Productions
Cast
Full credits →P
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
C
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
I
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
I
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
B
Bernard Miles
Simpson
B
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
E
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
I
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
M
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
J
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
W
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
R
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
J
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer
J
Joan Hickson
Housewife
E
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
J
John Comer
Butcher
K
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
M
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
B
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
C
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
