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On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 10, 1961

Runtime

1h 27m

Genres

Comedy

User Score

64%

Original Title

On the Fiddle

Production Companies

Coronado Productions, American International Pictures, Anglo-Amalgamated

Director

Cyril Frankel

Description

Tricked into joining the RAF by a wily judge, wide boy Horace Pope sets his sights on the main chance, teams with slow-witted, good-hearted gypsy Pedlar Pascoe, and works up a lucrative racket in conning both his colleagues and the RAF. By means of various devious schemes Pope and Pascoe manage to avoid the front lines until they are sent to France - where they find themselves making unexpected and uncomfortably close contact with the enemy.