The Guinea Pig (film)
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| Directed by | Roy Boulting |
| Produced by | John Boulting |
| Written by | Roy Boulting Warren Chetham-Strode (play) Bernard Miles |
| Starring | Richard Attenborough Tony Stubbs |
| Music by | John Wooldridge |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Taylor |
| Edited by | Richard Best |
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| Distributed by | Pathé Pictures International (UK) |
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97 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
| Box office | £224,694 (UK) |
The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film directed and produced by the Boulting brothers, originally known as The Outsider in the United States. The film is adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Warren Chetham-Strode.
The "guinea pig" is 14-year-old Jack Read (played by 25-year-old Richard Attenborough), a tobacconist's son who, following the Fleming Report, is given a scholarship to Saintbury, an exclusive public school.
Only after the changes wreaked by the Second World War, could such a scenario be imagined. Of course, Read's uncouth behaviour causes him difficulties in fitting into the school.
The school location used in the film was Sherborne, a public scholl in Dorset. The film was controversial at the time of its first release, as it contains the first screen use of the word "".
The New York Times critic Bosley Crowther, at the time of the film's first American release, was unimpressed. According to Crowther, "the details are highly parochial, the attitudes of the characters are strangely stiff, the accents and idioms are hard to fathom—and the exposition is involved and tedious". British trade papers called the film a "notable box office attraction" in British cinemas in 1949. A reviewer for Time Out has called it, "solid entertainment, even if barely convincing".
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