The Guinea Pig (1948)
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.
- Date of release
- 1948-10-26
- TMDB
- 7.1 / 10 (17)
- Runtime
- 1h 37m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Roy Boulting
Casting
- 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 Beckett
- Wally Patch — Uncle Percy
- Olive Sloane — Aunt Mabel
Interesting facts
The Guinea Pig is a 1948 British film directed by Roy Boulting and starring Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim and Bernard Miles. The screenplay was by Warren Chetham-Strode and Bernard Miles, in association with Boulting, adapted from the 1946 play of the same name by Chetham-Strode. It was produced by John Boulting.
Production
The film was produced by Pilgrim Pictures, a company set up by Filippo Del Guidice. It was financed by a "mystery industrialist".
The school location used in the film was Sherborne School, a public school in Dorset.
Richard Attenborough was aged 25 when he played the 14-year-old Jack Read.
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