A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the...
Top Cast
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Peter SellersThe Rev. John Smallwood
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Cecil ParkerArchdeacon Aspinall
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Isabel JeansLady Despard
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Ian CarmichaelThe Other Smallwood
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Bernard MilesSimpson
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Brock PetersMatthew Robinson
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Eric SykesHarry Smith
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Irene HandlRene Smith
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Miriam KarlinWinnie Smith
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Joan MillerMrs Smith-Gould
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William HartnellMajor Fowler
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Roy KinnearFred Smith
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John HarveyWilson, Prison Officer
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Joan HicksonHousewife
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Eric BarkerBank Manager
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John ComerButcher
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Kenneth GriffithRev. Owen Thomas
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Mark EdenSir Geoffrey Despard
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Basil DignamPrison Governor
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Colin GordonPrime Minister
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Geoffrey HibbertCouncil Official
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Ludovic KennedyHimself
MA
Malcolm MuggeridgeCleric
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Harry LockeShop Steward
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Derek NimmoDG Assistant
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Conrad PhillipsDeaf Man
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Miles MallesonBishop Rockeby
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Nicholas PhippsDG
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Thorley WaltersTranquilax Executive
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Marianne StoneMiss Palmer
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Cardew RobinsonTramp
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Gerald SimStore Manager
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Anna WingHousewife (uncredited)
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John JunkinReporter at Space Launch Site (uncredited)