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5.6/10   109 votes
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Writer:
Bruce Montgomery (original story and screenplay)
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Release Date:
23 February 1962 (Finland) more
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Tagline:
A Laugh in every Note !
Plot:
A group of students at an elite music school decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together... more | add synopsis
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Cast

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James Robertson Justice ... Sir Benjamin Boyd
Leslie Phillips ... Mervyn Hughes
Paul Massie ... Malcolm Stewart
Kenneth Williams ... Harold Chesney
Liz Fraser ... Miranda Kennaway
Eric Barker ... Dr. Morgan Rutherford
Jennifer Jayne ... Jill Clemons
Jimmy Thompson ... Alex Spendlove
Sid James ... Sid (as Sidney James)
Esma Cannon ... Mrs. Deevens
Geoffrey Keen ... Sir John

Jill Ireland ... Janet
Victor Maddern ... Removal Man
Lance Percival ... Harry
Joan Hickson ... Mrs. Bostwick
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Also Known As:
Roommates (USA)
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Runtime:
91 min
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Aspect Ratio:
1.66 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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4 out of 4 people found the following review useful.
Almost, 17 February 2008
7/10
Author: Edgewalker from Tuxford, England

Raising the Wind is almost a Carry On, is almost very funny and is filmed in almost the same retina-destroying colour as Cruising. James Robertson Justice turns in a performance so big that it screams out for a cinema screen and popcorn, but doesn't mind roughing it with a telly and hot chocolate. The great Eric Barker swaps his precision haircuts and dapper suits for the cardigan and frightwig of a mad professor, he pulls it off superbly, but did you expect anything less? Sid's cameo is a nice surprise, no matter how many times you've seen the film. Bruce Montgomery's script lurches from Rothwellesque brilliance to '60s sitcom banality, probably depending on how full or empty the whisky bottle was at the time. Peter Rogers and Gerald Thomas hold everything together well, they can't make it a brilliant film, but they make it a very good one. Almost.

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