Cast
- Peter Sellers as The Reverend John Smallwood
- Cecil Parker as Archdeacon Aspinall
- Isabel Jeans as Lady Despard
- Ian Carmichael as The Other Smallwood
- Bernard Miles as Simpson
- Brock Peters as Matthew Robinson
- Eric Sykes as Harry Smith
- Irene Handl as Rene Smith
- Miriam Karlin as Winnie Smith
- Joan Miller as Mrs. Smith-Gould
- Miles Malleson as Rockeby
- Eric Barker as Bank Manager
- William Hartnell as Major Fowler, town councillor
- Roy Kinnear as Fred Smith
- Joan Hickson as Housewife
- Kenneth Griffith as Reverend Owen Smith
- Mark Eden as Sir Geoffrey Despard
- John Comer as Butcher
- Basil Dignam as Prisoner Governor
- Franklyn Engelman as TV Commentator
- Colin Gordon as Prime Minister
The cast includes Steve Marriott who has an uncredited role in the film. Sellers' performance is generally held to be outstanding, in a meatier, more dramatic role than most he had previously taken on, but many find the ending a little ill-fitting and silly.
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