• Bottoms Up (1960 film)
  ...admaster of Chiselbury School, a fictional [[private school|British public school]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://explore.bfi.org.uk/4ce2b6a6356c3 |archive-url= ...reatens to replace him as headmaster unless he can drastically improve the school's performance. When Edwards is also confronted by his bookmaker demanding m
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• Tamahine
  ...eves she can change the culture of Hallow School, a British boys' boarding school. The story was filmed at [[Wellington College, Berkshire|Wellington College ...allow, a prestigious all-male school in England. Richard, Charles' son and school student, falls in love with her, but she considers him [[Tapu (Polynesian c
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• Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher
  ...Welsh boys' boarding school, presided over by the colourful Dr. Fagan. The school's staff are an assortment of eccentric characters: Mr Prendergast, a withdr [[Category:1968 films]]
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• Good Morning, Boys
  ...film, both of whom would go onto act as straight men to Hay in his future films. ...roguish headmaster, [[Dr Benjamin Twist|Dr Twist]], of a dubious boarding school for boys. Twist bets on the [[horse racing|horses]] with his pupils and tea
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• Vice Versa (1948 film)
  | studio = [[Two Cities Films]] ...ok)|Vice Versa]]'' by [[F. Anstey]]. The film was produced by [[Two Cities Films]] and distributed by [[General Film Distributors]].
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• Things Are Looking Up (film)
  ...ooking-Up_1935|website=britmovie.co.uk|publisher=Britmovie Home of British Films|access-date=1 September 2015}}</ref><ref>Cook, 1997, p. 188</ref> It was ma ...uns a nearby circus. When Bertha [[elope]]s, Cicely takes her place at the school to prevent her from getting the sack. It was the film debut for [[Vivien Le
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• St Trinian's School
  ...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. Searle published his first St Trinian's School cartoon in 1941 in the magazine ''[[Lilliput (magazine)|Lilliput]]''. Short
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• The Happiest Days of Your Life (film)
  | studio = [[London Films]]<br>Individual Pictures | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}}
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• A Girl Must Live
  ...false name taken from a musical star of the past) finds a room in a London boarding house. There she learns from two other lodgers, Gloria and Clytie, that the ...aumont British Deals Block-Booking a Lusty Blow By Announcing 12 "Class A" Films for Sale Singly: British Producing Company Stresses Quality Rather Than Qua
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• No Kidding (film)
  ...[[Wheeler Dixon]] as "a gentle critique of [[A. S. Neill]]'s [[Summerhill School|Summerhill]],<ref>Dixon, Wheeler W. [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3K ...e to spend more time with them and not send them away to holiday homes and boarding schools. After the parents agree, all the children depart. Impressed by wha
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• If....
  | gross = $2.3 million <small>(rentals)</small><ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ref> ...lows a group of pupils who stage a savage insurrection at a boys' boarding school. The film was the subject of controversy at the time of its release, receiv
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• Virginia McKenna
  ...screen actress, author and wildlife campaigner. She is best known for the films ''[[A Town Like Alice (film)|A Town Like Alice]]'' (1956), ''[[Carve Her Na ...the school at the age of fourteen, after which she attended the [[Central School of Speech and Drama]], at that time based at the [[Royal Albert Hall]], Lon
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• Britannia Hospital
  | studio = [[EMI Films]]<br>[[British Lion Films]] ...ham Crowden]], whom he had had a run-in with in ''O Lucky Man''. All three films have characters in common. Some of the characters from ''if....'' that did
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• The Magic Christian (film)
  | studio = Grand Films ...confided to Grand that an original portrait from the [[Rembrandt|Rembrandt School]] might fetch £10,000 at auction. To the astonishment of the director, Mr.
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• Bryan Pringle
  ...nty Borough of Bolton|Bolton]]. After boarding at [[St Bees School|St Bees School]], Cumberland,<ref>Old St Beghian Bulletin January 2019</ref> he trained at ...elevision|Granada Television]].)<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6f4ed1e6 |title = Big Soft Nellie (1971) {{!}} BFI}}</ref> T
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• Margaret Rutherford
  ...Marple]] in a series of four [[George Pollock (director)|George Pollock]] films. She was appointed an Officer of the [[Order of the British Empire|Order of ...es.com/p/articles/mi_qn4159/is_20040307/ai_n12751110/pg_3 |title=A life in films: Murder she hid |newspaper=The Independent on Sunday |first=Matthew |last=S
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• Dudley Sutton
  ...2018. Retrieved 16 September 2018. </ref> and educated at a boys' boarding school at [[Lifton, Devon#Lifton Park|Lifton Park]], Devon. He served in the [[Roy ...]'s [[Theatre Workshop]], Sutton became known for his unusual roles in two films directed by [[Sidney J. Furie]].<ref name=guardian/><ref name=theatricalia/
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• Janet Davies (actress)
  ...1968 film)|Interlude]]'' (1968).<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2baba0736d|title=Janet Davies|website=BFI}}</ref><ref>{{cite w ...itor, died in his early thirties, and as a result she was sent to boarding school. She began training as a solicitor but left and qualified as a shorthand t
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• Joan Hickson
  ...and Alfred Harold Hickson, a shoe manufacturer. After boarding at Oldfield School in Swanage, Dorset, she went on to train at [[RADA]] in London.<ref>{{Cite ...during her career included several in [[Carry On (franchise)|''Carry On'' films]], notably Sister in ''[[Carry On Nurse]]'' and Mrs May in ''[[Carry On Con
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• Mervyn Johns
  ...sh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War. ...worked regularly at [[Ealing Studios]], first with starring roles in such films as ''[[They Knew Mr. Knight (film)|They Knew Mr. Knight]]'' (1946), ''[[The
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