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.
Director:
Peter Sellers
The Rev. John Smallwood
Cecil Parker
Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans
Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael
The Other Smallwood
Bernard Miles
Simpson
Brock Peters
Matthew Robinson
Eric Sykes
Harry Smith
Irene Handl
Rene Smith
Miriam Karlin
Winnie Smith
Joan Miller
Mrs Smith-Gould
William Hartnell
Major Fowler
Roy Kinnear
Fred Smith
John Harvey
Wilson, Prison Officer
Joan Hickson
Housewife
Eric Barker
Bank Manager
John Comer
Butcher
Kenneth Griffith
Rev. Owen Thomas
Mark Eden
Sir Geoffrey Despard
Basil Dignam
Prison Governor
Colin Gordon
Prime Minister
Geoffrey Hibbert
Council Official
Ludovic Kennedy
Himself
Malcolm Muggeridge
Cleric
Harry Locke
Shop Steward
Derek Nimmo
DG Assistant
Conrad Phillips
Deaf Man
Miles Malleson
Bishop Rockeby
Nicholas Phipps
DG
Thorley Walters
Tranquilax Executive
Marianne Stone
Miss Palmer
Cardew Robinson
Tramp
Gerald Sim
Store Manager
Anna Wing
Housewife (uncredited)
John Junkin
Reporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)
Rodney Bewes
Milkfloat Driver (uncredited)
Steve Marriott
Jack (uncredited)
John Louis Mansi
Man Buying Groceries (uncredited)
Jack Carter
Launch Site Worker (uncredited)
