The Rebel (Original title)Call Me Genius (Alternative title)
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 20 March 1961 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Day
Synopsis: Story of an office worker, an ardent painter in his spare time, who revolts against the city regime and flees to the Left Bank of Paris to find freedom and the gay life in the artists' quarter.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Painters (fine art), Paris
Dates: 1960 (Copyright), 20 March 1961 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirected by: Robert Day
Synopsis: Story of an office worker, an ardent painter in his spare time, who revolts against the city regime and flees to the Left Bank of Paris to find freedom and the gay life in the artists' quarter.
Genre: Comedy
Subjects: Painters (fine art), Paris
Credits
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Production Company: Associated British Picture Corporation, Produced by: W.A. Whittaker, Production Manager: R.E. Dearing, [Production Secretary]: Jean Clarkson, Carole Conway, Assistant Director: Kip Gowans, [Assistant Director (2nd)]: Gordon Gilbert, [Assistant Director (3rd)]: Bernard Williams, Continuity: Doreen Dearnaley, Casting Director: Robert Lennard, [Crowd Casting]: Etienne Bonnichon, Scenario Editor: Frederick Gotfurt, Screenplay by: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton, Based on an original story by: Tony Hancock, Based on an original story by: Alan Simpson, Ray Galton, Director of Photography: Gilbert Taylor, [2nd Unit Director of Photography]: Lionel Banes, Camera Operator: Val Stewart, [Camera Operator (2nd Unit)]: Brian West, Brian Elvin, [Focus Puller]: Kelvin Pike, [Clapper Loader]: Jimmy Stilwell, [Supervising Chargehand Electrician]: Stephen Birtles, [Chargehand Electrician]: Leslie Riley, [Grips]: R. Osborn, [Stills]: George Higgins, Film Editor: Richard Best, [Assistant Editor]: Eve Catchpole, [Assistant Editor (2nd)]: Peter Lennard, Art Director: Robert Jones, Set Decorations by: Scott Slyman, Paul's Paintings by: Alistair Grant, [Draughtsman]: Ron Benton, Alan Tomkins, [Scenic Artist]: Bill Beavis, [Props Buyer]: Dudley May, Miss Saad's Dresses by: Alan Sieveright, Wardrobe: Dora Lloyd, Make-up: Tony Sforzini, Hairdressing: Ivy Emmerton, [Hairdresser]: Polly Young, Titles Designed by: James Baker, Music by: Frank Cordell, [Music] Played by: The Associated British Studio Orchestra, Musical Director: Stanley Black, Recording Director: A.W. Lumkin, Sound Recordist: Leonard Abbott, Len Shilton, [Sound Camera Operator]: Stan Samworth, Bill Wayland, [Boom Operator]: Bill Cook, [Sound Maintenance]: Les Grimmell, [Dubbing Crew]: Len Shilton, [Dubbing Crew]: Bill Rowe, [Dubbing Crew]: J. Houten, Robin Gregory, Dubbing Editor: Arthur Southgate, [Assistant Dubbing Editor]: Angie Ibbetson, [Unit Press Representative]: Edna Tromans, [Publicity Director]: Alan Thomson, Studio: Associated British Elstree Studios
Cast
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Tony Hancock (Anthony Hancock), George Sanders (Sir Charles Brewer), Paul Massie (Paul), Margit Saad (Margot Carreras), Gregoire Aslan (Carreras), Dennis Price (Jim Smith), Irene Handl (Mrs Cora Crevatte), John Le Mesurier (office manager), Liz Fraser (waitress), Mervyn Johns (London art gallery manager), Peter Bull (Paris art gallery manager), Nanette Newman (Josey), Marie Burke (Madame Laurent), Bernard Rebel (art dealer), Sandor Eles, Oliver Reed, Garry Cockerill, Neville Becker (artist), Marie Devereux (Yvette), John Wood (poet), Victor Platt (dock official), Mario Fabrizi (coffee bar attendant), Barry Shawzin (bistro owner), Hugh Lloyd ([man on train]), Dido Plum ([Yogi guest]), Middleton Woods ([art gallery guide]), Patrick Newell ([man in art London art gallery])