The Square Peg
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The Square Peg is a 1958 British comedy film starring Norman Wisdom
Norman Wisdom
Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

 and directed by John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs
John Paddy Carstairs was a British film director and television director , usually of light-hearted subject matter. He was also a comic novelist and painter....

. Norman Wisdom plays two different characters: a man who digs and repairs roads and a Nazi General.

Cast

  • Norman Wisdom
    Norman Wisdom
    Sir Norman Joseph Wisdom, OBE was an English actor, comedian and singer-songwriter best known for a series of comedy films produced between 1953 and 1966 featuring his hapless onscreen character Norman Pitkin...

     as Norman Pitkin/General Schreiber
  • Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman
    Honor Blackman is an English actress, known for the roles of Cathy Gale in The Avengers and Bond girl Pussy Galore in Goldfinger .-Early life:...

     as Lesley Cartland
  • Edward Chapman
    Edward Chapman (actor)
    Edward Chapman was an English actor who starred in many films and television programmes, but is chiefly remembered as "Mr. Wilfred Grimsdale", the officious superior and comic foil to Norman Wisdom's character of Pitkin in many of his films from the late 1950s and 1960s.Chapman was born in...

     as Mr Grimsdale
  • Campbell Singer
    Campbell Singer
    Campbell Singer was a British character actor who featured in a number of film and television roles during his long career....

     as Sergeant Loder
  • Hattie Jacques
    Hattie Jacques
    Josephine Edwina Jaques was an English comedy actress, known as Hattie Jacques.Starting her career in the 1940s, Jacques first gained attention through her radio appearances with Tommy Handley on ITMA and later with Tony Hancock on Hancock's Half Hour...

     as Gretchen
  • Brian Worth
    Brian Worth (actor)
    - Selected filmography :- External links :...

     as Henri Le Blanc
  • Terence Alexander
    Terence Alexander
    Terence Joseph Alexander was an English film and television actor, best known for his role as Charlie Hungerford in the British TV drama Bergerac.-Early life and career:...

     as Captain Wharton
  • John Warwick
    John Warwick
    John Warwick was an Australian film and television actor.-Selected filmography:* On Our Selection * In the Wake of the Bounty * The Squatter's Daughter * Riding High...

     as Colonel Layton
  • Arnold Bell
    Arnold Bell
    -Selected filmography:* Josser in the Army * Strange Experiment * The Greed of William Hart * Murder at 3am * Rough Shoot * The Fake * Star of India * The Golden Link...

     as General Hunt
  • André Maranne
    André Maranne
    André Maranne is an Anglo-French actor who appeared chiefly in English-language roles from the mid 1950s.-Career:Born in Toulouse, France, Maranne's most prominent recurring role was Sergeant François Chevalier in six of The Pink Panther films, alongside Peter Sellers and Herbert Lom. Before the...

     as Jean-Claude
  • Victor Beaumont
    Victor Beaumont
    Victor Beaumont , was an German born film and television actor.As Peter Wolff he appeared in a number of German films and at least one play...

     as Jogenkraut
  • Frank Williams
    Frank Williams (actor)
    Frank Williams is an English actor.Williams was educated at Ardingly College. He starred in The Army Game and as the Vicar in Dad's Army. In 1970, he starred in the short-lived sitcom As Good Cooks Go...

     as Captain Ford
  • Eddie Leslie as Medical Officer
  • Richard Marner
    Richard Marner
    Richard Marner, born Alexander Molchanoff was a Russian-born British actor. He was probably best known for his role as Colonel Kurt Von Strohm in the British sitcom Allo 'Allo!.-Early life:...

     in a bit part
  • John G. Heller as German officer at gatepost

Synopsis

Norman Pitkin is working for Mr Grimsdale and the council repairing roads outside an army camp during The Second World War. With Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale causing trouble for the army, the sergeant orders them to be called up and sent to Boville. Little does Pitkin know that the ruthless General Schreiber is his exact double and has arrested Mr Grimsdale on suspicion of being a spy. Pitkin meets Lesley Cartland a woman he met earlier at the army camp and fallen in love with posing as a waitress in a French cafe. When the staff of the cafe are too arrested, Pitkin must stop Schreiber and rescue his friends. In the end Norman is appointed as Mayor with Mr Grimsdale now working for him.
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