| Operation Stogie | |
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| Directed by | Ernest Morris |
| Written by | M.M. McCormack |
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| Cinematography | Jimmy Wilson |
| Edited by | John Dunsford |
| Music by | Bill LeSage |
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Running time | 75 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
Operation Stogie is a 1962 [1] British comedy film directed by Ernest Morris and starring John Hewer, [2] Anton Rogers and Susan Stephen. [3] [4] It was written by M.M. McCormack and produced by The Danzigers.
General Tankard visits Scattershot, an Officer Cadet Training Centre commanded by Major Soames, to inform him that the army is on a new efficiency drive and wants to reduce the number of cadets that can graduate. Major Soames therefore devises a set of initiative tests that each cadet must pass, or be thrown off the course. Cadets Ted and Jock are particularly slippery customers, so Major Soames sets them an outrageous and seemingly impossible task – codenamed "Operation Stogie" – to prove their suitability for officer training. They must find a way to attend an elite party – a party so exclusive that even the Prime Minister can't get an invite – to be held at the ultra-posh Cormorant Manor. Further, they must prove their attendance with a photograph of each of them with their arm around Lady Cormorant. And if that were not an impossible enough task, Lady Cormorant must be smoking a cigar when the photo is taken. Ted and Jock accept the challenge and excute their operation with cunning and military precision.
Filming started at New Elstree Studios on 7 Octrober 1960. [5]