Overview
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.
Cast
- Peter Sellers as The Rev. 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