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Release year: 1963

Storyline

A naive prison vicar is accidentally appointed to a snobbish parish. His candidness and literal approach to preaching converts the matriarch of a wealthy, aristocratic family, which leads to dire consequences on the town's economy.

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Cast

Peter Sellers — The Reverend John Smallwood
Cecil Parker — Archdeacon Aspinall
Isabel Jeans — Lady Despard
Ian Carmichael — The Other Smallwood

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0 wins & 1 nomination

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Did you know

• Steve Marriott, who played Harry Smith's son Jack, was later to become the lead singer and guitarist with influential English rock group, the Small Faces.

• The voiceover at the beginning is Peter Sellers. He also provided one of the voices heard on a television sequence.

• At one point when Rev. Smallwood (Peter Sellers) is preaching from the pulpit, a young boy is seen in the foreground reading a copy of Vladimir Nabokov's "Lolita". Sellers played Quilty in Stanley Kubrick's film version of that book.