Sunday, 19 March 2017

The Guinea Pig (1948 John Boulting)

Dickie Attenborough was twenty-five - he'd been Pinky in Brighton Rock the previous year - odd casting for a school boy. Story has a grim familiarity to it.

Bernard Miles, who also co-wrote, is Dickie's dad, Joan Hickson mum. Robert Flemyng is the forward-thinking teacher, Cecil Trouncer the old guard, Sheila Sim the daughter (A Canterbury Tale was her debut - she had married Dickie in 1945!)

Gilbert Taylor shot it.

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