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The Rebel (1960)
Director: Robert Day
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
The first and best of two attempts to turn Hancock into a screen star, scripted by his regular TV writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, this is an only partially successful film. The first half, with Hancock turning from a bowler hat and the City to an artist's beret and the Left Bank - and ordering 'snails, egg and chips' as a compromise - is fine. But Day labours over Hancock's unexpected success as the leader of the Infantile school of painting, and breaks the golden rule of Hancock's comic art by allowing him an unqualified victory over life's circumstances.Author: PH
Cast & crew
Director: Robert Day
Producer: WA Whittaker
Cast: Tony Hancock, George Sanders, Dennis Price, Irene Handl, John Le Mesurier, Paul Massie, Margit Saad, Grégoire Aslan, Liz Fraser full cast
Genre(s): Comedy
Duration: 105 mins
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