The Ruling Class (Original title)
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 08 April 1973 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Medak
Synopsis: Based on the play by Peter Barnes, the film tells of the rise to the House of Lords of the allegedly insane 14th Earl of Gurney, who believed himself to be Jesus Christ, and whose unamused family wants to get him back to the asylum and get their hands back on the estate he had inherited.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1972Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - SoundRuntime: 155 mins Length: 13939 FeetDialogue (original): English
Dates: 1972 (Copyright), 08 April 1973 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Peter Medak
Synopsis: Based on the play by Peter Barnes, the film tells of the rise to the House of Lords of the allegedly insane 14th Earl of Gurney, who believed himself to be Jesus Christ, and whose unamused family wants to get him back to the asylum and get their hands back on the estate he had inherited.
Genre: Drama
Releases
Date: 1972Country: United KingdomRelease type: unknownFormat: not specified - Colour - DeLuxe - SoundRuntime: 155 mins Length: 13939 FeetDialogue (original): English
Credits
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©/For: Keep Films, Released by: Avco Embassy Pictures (U.K.) Ltd., Produced by: Jules Buck, Jack Hawkins, Associate Producer: David Korda, Production Manager: Tim Hampton, Accountant: Bill Finch, Location Manager: Lee Bolon, Production Aide: Roy Everson, Assistant Director: Bert Batt, 2nd Assistant Director: Bill Westley, Continuity: Maggie Unsworth, Casting: Maude Spector, Screenplay/From his play: Peter Barnes, Director of Photography: Ken Hodges, Camera Operator: Herbie Smith, Camera Assistant: Malcolm Vinson, Special Effects: Roy Whybrow, Editor: Ray Lovejoy, Production Designer: Peter Murton, Set Dresser: Peter Young, Construction: John Paterson, Costumes: Ruth Myers, Wardrobe: Nathan's, Wardrobe Master: Tiny Nicholls, Miss [Coral] Browne's Wardrobe by: Jean Muir, Make-up Created by: Charles Parker, Make-up: Eric Allwright, Hairstylist: Ramon Gow, Hairdresser: Susie Hill, Musical Direction and Original Music: John Cameron, Music Mixer: Vic Smith, Choreographer: Eleanor Fazan, Sound Mixer: Robin Gregory, Boom Operator: Don Wortham, Dubbing Mixer: Gerry Humphries, Dubbing Editor: Stan Fiferman, Made at: Twickenham Film Studios
Cast
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Peter O'Toole (Jack, 14th Earl of Gurney), Harry Andrews (13th Earl of Gurney), Coral Browne (Lady Claire Gurney), Michael Bryant (Dr Herder), Nigel Green (McKyle), William Mervyn (Sir Charles Gurney), Carolyn Seymour (Grace Shelley), James Villiers (Dinsdale Gurney), Kay Walsh (Mrs Piggott Jones), Patsy Byrne (Mrs Treadwell), Graham Crowden (Truscott), Hugh Burden (Matthew Peake), James Grout (.), James Hazeldine (Det-Sgt Fraser), Joan Cooper (Nurse Brice), Alastair Sim (Bishop Lampton), Arthur Lowe (Tucker), Margaret Lacey (midwife), Hugh Owens (toastmaster), Griffith Davies, Oliver Macgreevy, Henry Woolf (inmate), Neil Kennedy (Herder's assistant), Julian D'albie, Llewellyn Rees, Ronald Adam, C. Kenneth Benda (lord), Declan Mulholland, Leslie Schofield, Cyril Appleton