The Guinea Pig
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.
- 7.2
- 1948
- Released
- 1h 37m
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
Brenda Hogan
Lorna BeckettWally Patch
Uncle Percy
Olive Sloane
Aunt Mabel
Hay Petrie
Peck
Timothy Bateson
Tracey
Kynaston Reeves
The Bishop
Anthony Nicholls
Mr. Stringer
Clive Baxter
GregoryBasil Cunard
BucktonMaureen Glynne
Bessie
Anthony Newley
Miles Minor
Oscar Quitak
David Tracey
Peter Reynolds
Grimmett
Tony Wager
BertPercy Walsh
Alec StevensAmbrose Day
Robert Desmond
(Uncredited)
Edward Judd
James Kenney
Michael McKeag
Jack McNaughton
Desmond Newling
Digby Wolfe
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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 th