The Guinea Pig

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The Guinea Pig (1948)

10/26/1948 (GB) 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.

Roy Boulting

Director, Screenplay
Warren Chetham-Strode

Screenplay
Bernard Miles

Screenplay

Top Billed Cast

Richard Attenborough

Jack Read
Sheila Sim

Lynne Hartley
Bernard Miles

Mr. Read
Cecil Trouncer

Lloyd Hartley
Joan Hickson

Mrs. Read
Edith Sharpe

Mrs. Hartley
Robert Flemyng

Nigel Lorraine
John Forrest

Fitch
Herbert Lomas

Sir James Corfield
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Featured Review

A review by John Chard

9.0

Written by John Chard on November 23, 2018

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 to... read the rest.

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