School for scoundrels

Episode of Series “Forever Ealing”.
Amusing British comedy about a constant “loser” (Ian Carmichael) who enrols in Alistair Sim’s School of Lifemanship” and there learns all the tricks to allow him to win the girl and get the better of two unscrupulous used car salesmen (Dennis Price and Peter Jones) as well as his rival in love and on the tennis court, Terry Thomas. Based on the book by Stephen Potter.

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Credits

producer

Hal E. Chester

director

Robert Hamer

production company

Guardsman Film Productions

ABP

Duration

01:34:00:00

Production places

United Kingdom

Production dates

1960

Appears in

Group of items

Forever Ealing

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Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

302854

Language

English

Audience classification

G

Subject categories

Adaptations

Comedy

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Great Britain

Literature → English literature - Film and video adaptations

Literature → Literature

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Black and White

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1530069

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United Kingdom, 1960