Bottoms Up!

Bottoms Up!

1960 · 90 min · ★ 6.7 · Comedy

An incompetent boarding school headmaster, Professor Jim Edwards, devises a bizarre plot to raise the profile of his boarding school, and thus save his job, by passing off his bookie's son as a Middle Eastern prince. The headmaster's madcap scheme is further complicated when an official from the Foreign Office arrives and announces that a real prince is to be placed under Edwards supervision, not due to the schools lofty reputation, but that a gang of kidnappers are unlikely to look for the regal child there.

Directed by Mario Zampi · Written by Michael Pertwee

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Jimmy Edwards Professor Jim Edwards
Arthur Howard Mr. Oliver Pettigrew
Martita Hunt Lady Emily Gore-Willoughby
Sydney Tafler Sid Biggs
Raymond Huntley Garrick-Jones
Reginald Beckwith Bishop Wendover
Vanda Hudson Matron
Melvyn Hayes Cecil Biggs
Mitch Mitchell Peregrine Wendover
Donald Hewlett Hamley
Richard Briers Colbourne
Neil Wilson Hackforth

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