Cast
- Alec Guinness as Professor Marcus
- Cecil Parker as Major Claude Courtney
- Herbert Lom as Louis Harvey
- Peter Sellers as Harry Robinson
- Danny Green as 'One-Round' Lawson
- Jack Warner as the police superintendent
- Katie Johnson as Mrs Louisa Alexandra Wilberforce
- Philip Stainton as the police sergeant
- Frankie Howerd as the barrow boy
- Kenneth Connor as the taxi driver (uncredited)
- Harold Goodwin as the railway parcels clerk (uncredited)
- Lucy Griffiths as Miss Pringle (uncredited)
- Vincent Holman as the station master (uncredited)
- Stratford Johns as the security van guard (uncredited)
- Edie Martin as Lettice (uncredited)
- Jack Melford as the detective (uncredited)
- Leonard Sharp as the pavement artist (uncredited)
The comedian Frankie Howerd has a small role as an agitated barrow boy, as does Kenneth Connor as a taxi driver. A young Stratford Johns (Charlie Barlow from Z-Cars) plays the driver of the security van that gets robbed.
Guinness based Professor Marcus on the popular comedian and actor Alastair Sim. Sim's daughter has claimed in interviews that many assume that her father actually played the part.
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