An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
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Nadia Sawalha
- Mandy Kostakis
- (as Nadia Carina)
Angus MacKay
- First Class Passenger
- (as Angus Mackay)
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- TriviaThe name of the school was Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School. Tompion (1639-1713), a famous clockmaker, is regarded as the father of English clockmaking. He constructed some of the first spring-balanced watches, and some of the timepieces he made are still operational.
- GoofsWhen Stimpson is informed the train for Norwich is on the adjacent platform, he could not have been on the Plymouth train, as that would leave from London Paddington, not London Liverpool Street which is where Norwich trains depart from.
- Quotes
Brian Stimpson: It's not the despair, Laura. I can take the despair. It's the hope I can't stand.
- SoundtracksThis Is My Lovely Day
by A.P. Herbert (as Herbert) & Vivian Ellis (as Ellis)
Sung by Ann Way (uncredited)
Chappell Music Ltd
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Underrated Comedy
A much underrated comedy detailing the collapse of a stern, disciplinarian headmaster during a chaotic journey to deliver a speech at a convention of snobbish educationists.
Cleese begins in a very restrained way and is watchable and funny as he gradually descends into anarchic despondency. The pathos as he finally delivers his speech, in an ill-fitting (stolen) tasteless outfit, surrounded by the detritus of his dreadful day, is genuinely moving as well as funny.
Best line, from Cleese, as yet another possible means of reaching his goal emerges: 'It's not the despair: I can cope with the despair. It's the HOPE - that's what's killing me.' Almost the perfect motto for Scotland football supporters, you might say.
Probably alone in the world, I rate this movie superior to the overly foul-mouthed and Americanised Fish Called Wanda. A host of grizzled British character actors, including the magnificent Alison Steadman, keep things going.
I wonder what happened to the sherry glasses?
Cleese begins in a very restrained way and is watchable and funny as he gradually descends into anarchic despondency. The pathos as he finally delivers his speech, in an ill-fitting (stolen) tasteless outfit, surrounded by the detritus of his dreadful day, is genuinely moving as well as funny.
Best line, from Cleese, as yet another possible means of reaching his goal emerges: 'It's not the despair: I can cope with the despair. It's the HOPE - that's what's killing me.' Almost the perfect motto for Scotland football supporters, you might say.
Probably alone in the world, I rate this movie superior to the overly foul-mouthed and Americanised Fish Called Wanda. A host of grizzled British character actors, including the magnificent Alison Steadman, keep things going.
I wonder what happened to the sherry glasses?
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- KirkieRobRoy
- Nov 26, 1999
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- Clockwise - Recht so, Mr. Stimpson
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,476,356
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $156,066
- Oct 12, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $1,476,356
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