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Decline and Fall (Original title)Decline and Fall... Of a Birdwatcher (Alternative title)
Date: 13 October 1968 (Release)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: John Krish

Synopsis: Comedy. An earnest young Oxford student is offered job as private tutor to wealthy woman's son. She eventually agrees to marry him, sending him first to Tangiers to tie-up her business affairs which turn out to be white slave trafficking.

Genre:
Comedy

Subjects:
Slavery, Students
Releases
Date: 1968Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - SoundRuntime: 113 mins Length: 10126 Feet

Credits (29)
Production Company: Ivan Foxwell Productions, Producer: Ivan Foxwell, Associate Producer: Sydney S. Streeter, Production Manager: Eddie Dorian, Assistant Director: Douglas Hermes, Assistant Director: Peter Bolton, Continuity: Doris Martin, Screenplay: Ivan Foxwell, Additional scenes: Alan Hackney, Hugh Whitemore, Original novel: Evelyn Waugh, Director of Photography: Desmond Dickinson, 2nd Unit Photographer: Wally Fairweather, Camera Operator: Tony White, [Assistant Camera, 2nd Unit]: Cedric James, Editor: Archie Ludski, Art Director: Jonathan Barry, Costume Designer: Julie Harris, Costume Designer: Anna Duse, Wardrobe Master: Ernest Farrer, Make-up: Ernest Gasser, Hair: Alice Holmes, Title Design: Morton Lewis, Music composed and conducted: Ron Goodwin, Sound Recording: John Bramall, Sound Recording: Maurice Askew, Sound: Peter Keen, [Unit Publicist]: Alan Arnold
Cast (34)
Robin Phillips (Paul Pennyfeather), Geneviève Page (Margot Beste-chetwynde), Donald Wolfit (Dr. Fagan), Colin Blakely (Philbrick), Robert Harris (Mr. Prendergast), Leo McKern (Captain Grimes), Patience Collier (Flossie Fagan), David Mcalister (Peter Beste-Chetwynde), Michael Elwyn (Alastair Digby-Vane-Trumpington), Felix Aylmer (The Judge), Griffith Jones (Home Secretary), Donald Sinden (Prison Governor), Paul Rogers (Chief Warder), Victor Maddern (1st Warder), Kenneth J. Warren (2nd Warder), Duncan Lamont (Police Inspector), Patrick Magee (Lunatic Prisoner), Joan Sterndale-Bennett (Lady Circumference), Michael Newport (Lord Tangent), Rodney Bewes (Potts), Roland Curram (Otto silenus), Kenneth Griffith (Mr. Church), Jack Watson (Gallery Warder), Helen Christie (Mrs. Clutterbuck), Jonathan Collins (Clutterbuck), Clifton Jones (Chokey), Michael Nightingale (Colonel Clutterbuck), Christopher Banks, Jeremy Child, Tom Clegg, Michael Hawkins, Katy Wild, Anne De Vigier, Marne Maitland