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Bookmark this pageThe Guinea Pig (1948)
Director: Roy Boulting
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From Time Out Film Guide
Thanks to the first cinematic sounding of the word 'arse', a vaguely controversial examination of what would happen if you let working class yobs into the country's public schools. Attenborough is the tobacconist's son whose uncouth manners give him a hard time as he shocks the snobbish teachers and pupils of an old-established institution. Solid entertainment, even if barely convincing, distinctly soft on the political side (he eventually wins respect and friendship, of course, having been moulded to the public school image), and riddled with special pleading.Author: GA
Cast & crew
Director: Roy Boulting
Producer: John Boulting
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Flemyng, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Peter Reynolds, Timothy Bateson full cast
Duration: 97 mins
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