On the Fiddle (1961)
- Directed by
- Cyril Frankel
- Genre
- war film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- Rated
- 12
- Rating
- 5.7 of 10 from 7 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A small-time hustler and a naive farm boy are thrown together in the Royal Air Force during World War II. They use scams and schemes to improve their situation and get by.
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What happens
On the Fiddle (U.S. titles Operation Snafu and Operation War Head) is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier. The screenplay was by Harold Buchman, based on the 1961 novel Stop at a Winner by R. F. Delderfield who served in the RAF in World War II. It was Sean Connery's tenth film and his first lead role, released the year before his big breakthrough as James Bond in the 1962 film Dr No. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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