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26/10/1948 Drama 1h 37m
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Overview

A working-class boy wins a scholarship to a public school, as part of a post-World War Two experiment in bringing boys of different social classes together.

  1. Roy Boulting

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. Richard Attenborough

    Jack Read

  2. Sheila Sim

    Lynne Hartley

  3. Bernard Miles

    Mr. Read

  4. Cecil Trouncer

    Lloyd Hartley

  5. Joan Hickson

    Mrs. Read

  6. Edith Sharpe

    Mrs. Hartley

  7. Robert Flemyng

    Nigel Lorraine

  8. John Forrest

    Fitch

  9. Herbert Lomas

    Sir James Corfield

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Reviews

A review by John Chard
Written by John Chard on 2018-11-23
Saintbury School, host to a truly wonderful experiment.

Based on a Warren Chetham Strode play and directed by the supremely talented Roy Boulting, The Guinea Pig is a cinematic delight of the kind that makes me proud to be British.

Set in the 1940s, the picture is showing us the wind of change that occurred in Britain in the 40s as regards the breaking down of class system snobbery after the advent of World War II.

Here our main protagonist is Jack Read (a simply wonderful Richard Attenborough) is a young fresh faced kid from a basic working class family. His father sends him away t...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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