School for Scoundrels Or How to Win without Actually Cheating (Original title)School for Scoundrels (Alternative title)
Dates: 1959 (Copyright), 23 May 1960 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Hamer
Synopsis: Deals with an amiable unconfident man who cures his inferiority complex without completely discarding his conscience after graduating from a College of Lifemanship.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8476 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1959 (Copyright), 23 May 1960 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Hamer
Synopsis: Deals with an amiable unconfident man who cures his inferiority complex without completely discarding his conscience after graduating from a College of Lifemanship.
Genre: Comedy
Releases
Date: 1959Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 94 mins Length: 8476 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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[Director - last three weeks]: Cyril Frankel, ©: Guardsman Films, A Guardsman Film Production: Guardsman Films, Presents: Associated British Picture Corporation, Released through: Warner-Pathé Distributors, Executive Producer: Hal E. Chester, Associate Producer: Douglas Rankin, Production Manager: L.C. Rudkin, Assistant Director: Basil Rabin, Continuity: Helen Whitson, Casting Director: Robert Lennard, Scenario Editor: Frederick Gotfurt, Screenplay by: Patricia Moyes, Hal E. Chester, [Screenplay]: Peter Ustinov, [Screenplay - blacklisted]: Frank Tarloff, Based on the novels by: Stephen Potter, Director of Photography: Erwin Hillier, Camera Operator: Herbert Smith, [Clapper/Loader]: Michael Roberts, Special Effects: George Blackwell, Film Editor: Richard Best, Art Director: Terence Verity, Wardrobe Master: Ernie Farrer, Wardrobe Mistress: Muriel Dickson, Make-up: Eric Aylott, Hair Stylist: Polly Young, Music Composed and Conducted by: John Addison, [Music] Played by: Sinfonia of London, Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin, Sound Recordist: Arthur Bradburn, Len Shilton, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Dubbing Editor: Charles Crafford, [Transport Manager]: Eddie Frewin, Made at: Associated British Elstree Studios
Cast
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Ian Carmichael (Henry Palfrey), Terry-Thomas (Raymond Delauney), Janette Scott (April Smith), Alastair Sim (Stephen Potter), Dennis Price (Dunstan Dorchester), Edward Chapman (Gloatbridge), Peter Jones (Dudley Dorchester), Kynaston Reeves (the general), Irene Handl (Mrs Stringer), John Le Mesurier (Skinner, headwaiter), Gerald Campion (Proudfoot), Hugh Paddick (Mr Pickthorn, instructor), Hattie Jacques (Miss Grimmet, 1st instructress), Barbara Roscoe (Barbara, 2nd instructress), Monty Landis (Fleetsnod), Jeremy Lloyd (Dingle), Charles Lamb (Carpenter), Anita Sharp-Bolster (Alice, the maid)