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|---|---|---|
![]() | Ken Annakin | |
| Starring | ||
|---|---|---|
| James Robertson Justice | Sir Ernest Pease KBE FRS / Lt. Farrow RN | |
| Leslie Phillips | Flying Officer Jimmy Cooper DFC | |
| Stanley Baxter | 'Jock' Everett / Kommondant Stamfel | |
| Eric Sykes | Willoughby, Sports Officer | |
| Richard Wattis | Woodcock, Entertainments Officer | |
| Godfrey Winn | Self | |
| Colin Gordon | Briggs | |
| John Le Mesurier | Piggott, Escape Officer | |
| Norman Bird | Travers, Senior British Officer | |
| Jeremy Lloyd | Flt Lt. 'Bonzo' Baines DFC | |
| John Forrest | 'Grassy' Green | |
| Jean Cadell | Lady Telling Story on TV show - Opening Scene | |
| Peter Myers | P / O P R Shaw | |
| Ronnie Stevens | Hankley | |
| Ronald Leigh-Hunt | Clynes | |
| Steve Plytas | Luftwaffe Officer | |
| John Ringham | P / O G S 'Plum' Pouding | |
| Mark Hardy | ||
| John Huson | ||
| Joseph Furst | Luftwaffe Interrogator | |
| Norman Shelley | Fred Whittaker | |
| Brian Oulton | 1st Scientist in Corridor | |
| Frederick Piper | 2nd Scientist in Corridor | |
| Joan Haythorne | Miss Rogers | |
| Heidi Erich | German Frau | |
| Lesley Allen | ||
| Derek Aylward | Stagehand | |
| Vincent Ball | Higgins | |
| Tony Castleton | Stagehand | |
| Billy Cornelius | German Guard | |
| Dan Darnelli | Messenger | |
| Hugo De Vernier | Swiss Commissioner | |
| Jack Dearlove | Prisoner of War | |
| Ed Devereaux | Webber | |
| Archie Duncan | Scottish Captain | |
| Hugh Elton | RAF Officer | |
| Roy Everson | Prisoner of War | |
| Ernest Fennemore | Prisoner of War | |
| Chick Fowles | Prisoner of War | |
| Fred Haggerty | German Guard | |
| Patrick Halpin | TV Crew | |
| Peter Hannon | German Guard | |
| Victor Harrington | Prisoner of War | |
| John Herrington | Swiss Commissioner | |
| Norman Lambert | Prisoner of war | |
| Barry Lowe | Forger | |
| Ned Lynch | Prisoner of War | |
| Fred Machon | German Guard | |
| Richard Marner | German Guard | |
| Nancy Nevinson | German Frau | |
| Ian Parsons | Swiss Commissioner | |
| Cecil Paul | Official | |
| Keith Peacock | German Guard | |
| Joe Phelps | German Guard | |
| Charles Price | Stagehand | |
| Prunella Smith | TV Show Audience | |
| Reg Thomason | TV Show Audience | |
| Martin Voss | German Guard | |
| Robert Vossler | Audience Member | |
| David Webb | ||
| John Wilder | Audience Member | |





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Sweden release date: 11th September 1961
Finland release date: 20th October 1961
Denmark release date: 21st December 1961
France release date: 16th February 1962
Japan release date: 10th March 1962
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