On the Fiddle

On the Fiddle
On the Fiddle
Directed by Cyril Frankel
Produced by Benjamin Fisz
Written by R.F. Delderfield (novel)
Harold Buchman
Starring Alfred Lynch
Sean Connery
Cecil Parker
Stanley Holloway
Music by Malcolm Arnold
Cinematography Edward Scaife
Editing by Peter Hunt
Distributed by Anglo-Amalgamated Film Distributors
Release date(s) 10 October 1961
Running time United Kingdom 86 minutes
Country United Kingdom
Language English
"Operation Snafu" redirects here. For the 1970 film starring Jason Robards and Peter Falk, see Rosolino Paternò soldato.

On the Fiddle is a 1961 British comedy film directed by Cyril Frankel and starring Sean Connery, Alfred Lynch, Cecil Parker, Stanley Holloway, Eric Barker, Mike Sarne, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Kathleen Harrison, Victor Maddern and John Le Mesurier.

The scenes of fighting is set in a woods in what is known as "The Sandpit", it is in Horsell Common near Woking Surrey, UK and is the area written about in H.G. Wells "War of the worlds"

It was not released in America until 1965 where it was retitled "Operation Snafu" for cinema release and "Operation Warhead" and to play off Sean Connery's popularity at the time. Comedian Alan King filmed his sequences in one day and was mystified when friends told him he was starring in a movie with Sean Connery.

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Critical reception

Reviewing the film following its 1965 release in the United States the New York Times described it as "familiar and trifling, but it's perky". It observed that "The wonder is that a picture with a story already done, gag by gag, a hundred times is so easy to take. It is, though — flip, friendly, brisk and a wee bit cynical in its take-it-or-leave-it jauntiness". It noted that the release in the United States was "an obvious cash-in" on Connery's subsequent popularity as James Bond.[1]

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References

  1. ^ http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=9A07E0D8123CE733A25751C2A9639C946491D6CF

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