Rent The Guinea Pig (1948)
3.5 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 38min
- General info
- Available formats
- Synopsis:
- Working-class schoolboy Jack Read (Richard Attenborough) is given the chance to swap life in a Walthamstow tobacconist's shop for the ivy-clad academia of Saintbury School as part of an experiment in less class-conscious education. Read struggles to adjust to the world of the public school, rife with snobbery, corporal punishment and conformity. Can he overcome his background, as well as the prejudices of masters and schoolmates, to emerge triumphant?
- Actors:
- Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer, Robert Flemyng, Edith Sharpe, Joan Hickson, Timothy Bateson, Clive Baxter, Basil Cunard, John Forrest, Maureen Glynne, Brenda Hogan, Herbert Lomas, Anthony Newley, Anthony Nicholls, Wally Patch, Hay Petrie, Oscar Quitak, Kynaston Reeves
- Directors:
- Roy Boulting
- Producers:
- John Boulting
- Writers:
- Warren Chetham Strode, Bernard Miles, Roy Boulting
- Aka:
- The Outsider
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Classics, Drama
- Collections:
- Richard Attenborough: A Centenary Special Instant Expert's Guide, The Instant Expert's Guide
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 20/07/2020
- Run Time:
- 98 minutes
- Languages:
- English LPCM Mono
- Subtitles:
- English Hard of Hearing
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Full Screen 1.37:1
- Colour:
- B & W
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- B
- Bonus:
- Old School (1901-1987, 71 mins): learn all about British education as seen on screen - from Edwardian Board school parades to 1980's comprehensive kids getting to grips with GCSE's - with a century-spanning selection of rare documentary films from the BFI National Archive
- The Make-Do-And-Menders (1941-1945, 24 mins): recall the ration-book world that provided the real-life social background for The Guinea Pig in this eccentric assortment of archive oddities from the war years
- Image Gallery
