Bottoms Up! (1960)
1h 30m
Running Time
March 25, 1960Release Date
Plot.
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.
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Cast & Crew.
Jimmy Edwards
Professor Jim Edwards
Arthur Howard
Pettigrew
Martita Hunt
Lady Gore-Willoughby
Raymond Huntley
Garrick-Jones
Sydney Tafler
Sid Biggs
Reginald Beckwith
Bishop Wendover
Mario Zampi
Director
Richard Briers
Colbourne
Michael Pertwee
Writer
Vanda Hudson
Matron
Frank Muir
Writer
Denis Norden
Writer
Melvyn Hayes
Cecil Biggs
Stanley Black
Composer
Mitch Mitchell
Wendover (as John Mitchell)
Gilbert Taylor
Cinematographer
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Wiki.
Bottoms Up is a 1960 British comedy film. It stars Jimmy Edwards in a spin-off of his TV comedy series Whack-O!, playing the seedy, alcoholic, cane-wielding headmaster of Chiselbury School, a fictional British public school. The screenplay was by Michael Pertwee, with additional dialogue by Frank Muir and Denis Norden.
The cast includes juvenile actor John "Mitch" Mitchell (as Wendover), who in the late 1960s was the drummer in The Jimi Hendrix Experience, using his adult stage name, Mitch Mitchell, and it also marks the first film appearance of Richard Briers.