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School for Scoundrels (1960)
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April 1960 (UK)
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Learn to gain weight by LOSING scruples!
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Based on the Stephen Potter "One Upmanship" and "Lifemanship" books, Henry Palfrey tries hard to impress but always loses out to the rotter Delauney...
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Terry-Thomas at his caddish best!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | Ian Carmichael | ... | Henry Palfrey |
| Terry-Thomas | ... | Raymond Delauney |
| Alastair Sim | ... | Mr. S. Potter |
| Janette Scott | ... | April Smith |
| Dennis Price | ... | Dunstan |
| Peter Jones | ... | Dudley |
| Edward Chapman | ... | Gloatbridge |
| John Le Mesurier | ... | Head Waiter |
| Irene Handl | ... | Mrs. Stringer |
| Kynaston Reeves | ... | General |
| Hattie Jacques | ... | 1st Instructress |
| Hugh Paddick | ... | Instructor |
| Barbara Roscoe | ... | 2nd Instructress |
| Gerald Campion | ... | Proudfoot |
| Monte Landis | ... | Fleetsnod |
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School for Scoundrels or How to Win Without Actually Cheating (UK) (long title)
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USA:94 min | UK:94 min
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Mono (RCA Sound Recording)
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First film acting of Jeremy Lloyd.
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Factual errors: When Palfrey beats Delauney at tennis, the shadows are wrong. At several points the shadows are behind both players.
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Mr. Potter:
Just remember, if you're not one up on the other fellow, then he's one up on you.
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Remade as School for Scoundrels (2006)
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I first saw this film about ten years ago and in that time I must have seen it two hundred times.It stands for everything great in British comedy.It tells the story of a young man who always seems to come a cropper in the lifeman stakes.He joins classes for one-upmanship and turns into an arrogant idiot.
Alastair Sim is at his lugrubious best.Terry-Thomas plays the bounder to a tee with some wonderful lines.If I have one gripe it's the casting of Ian Carmichael in the lead role.Leslie Philips would have been much better But that's a personal choice.
Now I'm off to watch it again for the two hundred and first time!