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    Bottoms Up (1960)

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    Whimsical slapstick comedy based on Frank Muir and Denis Norden’s successful radio and TV series Whack-O!

    This fully blown film version sought to cash-in on the success of Jimmy Edwards’s cane-wielding headmaster but falls short of such scholastic comedies as the St Trinian’s films or the adventures of Will Hay’s Dr. Benjamin Twist.

    An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards (Edwards), devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of Chiselbury School (according to the prospectus, an academy ‘for the sons of gentlefolk’), and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie’s son (Melvyn Hayes) as a Middle Eastern prince.

    Joining Edwards in the battle against the unruly children is the dithering deputy head, Pettigrew (Arthur Howard) – together fighting the ringleader of the students anti-caning revolt – Wendover (John Mitchell).

    The headmaster’s madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision – not due to the school’s lofty reputation, but because a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.

    But the kidnappers do show up.

    Professor Jim Edwards
    Jimmy Edwards
    Oliver Pettigrew
    Arthur Howard
    Lady Gore-Willoughby
    Martita Hunt
    Sid Biggs

    Sydney Tafler
    Garrick Jones

    Raymond Huntley
    Bishop Wendover

    Reginald Beckwith
    Matron

    Vanda Hudson
    Cecil Biggs

    Melvyn Hayes
    Colbourne

    Richard Briers

    Director
    Mario Zampi

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