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The Cuckoo Patrol is a film of genre Comedy with Kenneth Connor
The Cuckoo Patrol (1967)
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Add to a movie listCuckoo Patrol is a 1967 British musical comedy film directed by Duncan Wood and starring Freddie Garrity, Victor Maddern, John Le Mesurier and Kenneth Connor.
The film's tag line, "Based on a story outline by Freddie and the Dreamers", has been described in The Independent as "terrifying".
Actors
Kenneth Connor
(Wick)
Victor Maddern
(Dicko)
John Le Mesurier
(Gibbs)
Arthur Mullard
(Yossie)
Ernest Clark
(Marshall)
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