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    Raising the Wind (1961)

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    A line-up of stars from the Carry On fraternity get together for this laboured but likeable Gerald Thomas comedy about five poverty-stricken music students at the prestigious London Academy of Music and Arts – studying under gruff tutor and world-famous conductor Sir Benjamin Boyd (James Robertson-Justice) – who decide to share a flat in order to cut their living costs and have somewhere to practice together.

    The five – playboy Mervyn Hughes (Leslie Phillips), bookish double-bassist Miranda Kennaway (Liz Fraser), trumpeter Malcolm Stewart (Paul Massie), accident-prone harpist Jill Clemons (Jennifer Jayne), and Alex Spendlove (Jimmy Thompson) – get into quite a few scrapes,  adventures and drunken escapades, including impersonating a celebrity quintet.

    But when Mervyn accidentally sells a catchy pop tune to a music publisher he risks losing his scholarship unless he and his friends can raise the money to buy the rights back.

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    Studying with them at the Academy is Harold (Kenneth Williams), a smug, objectionable toffee-nosed swot with designs on a prize for conducting.

    These accomplished funnymen go through their usual paces with aplomb, but the film belongs to the delightful Esma Cannon as their deaf landlady, Mrs Deevens, and Sid James as the disreputable music publisher behind Mervyn’s predicament.

    Sir Benjamin Boyd
    James Robertson-Justice
    Mervyn Hughes
    Leslie Phillips
    Malcolm Stewart
    Paul Massie
    Harold Chesney
    Kenneth Williams
    Miranda Kennaway
    Liz Fraser
    Jill Clemons
    Jennifer Jayne
    Alex Spendlove
    Jimmy Thompson
    Sid
    Sidney James
    Harry
    Lance Percival
    Mrs Deevens
    Esma Cannon
    Dr Morgan Rutherford
    Eric Barker
    Sir John
    Geoffrey Keen
    Janet
    Jill Ireland
    Mrs Bostwick
    Joan Hickson
    Phil (Bass trombone player)
    Jim Dale
    Prof. Gerald Abrahams
    Frank Forsyth
    Prof. Parkin
    Oliver Johnston
    Doris
    Dorinda Stevens

    Director
    Gerald Thomas

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