On the Fiddle

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. It was based on the 1961 novel Stop at a Winner by R. F. Delderfield. It is about two British con men who join the RAF during World War II hoping to score money illegally: instead they are sent on a mission where they unexpectedly succeed with their offbeat actions. 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' The War of the Worlds. It was not released in America until 1965 by American International Pictures 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. 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".
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