Comedy
School for Scoundrels
Learn to gain weight by LOSING scruples!
Hapless Henry Palfrey is patronised by his self-important chief clerk at work, ignored by restaurant waiters, conned by shady second-hand car salesmen, and, worst of all, endlessly wrong-footed by unspeakably rotten cad Raymond Delauney who has set his cap at April, new love of Palfrey's life. In desperation Henry enrolls at the College of Lifemanship to learn how to best such bounders and win the girl.
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Top Cast
Ian Carmichael
Henry Palfrey
Terry-Thomas
Raymond Delauney
Alastair Sim
S. Potter
Janette Scott
April Smith
Dennis Price
Dunstan
Peter Jones
Dudley
Edward Chapman
Gloatbridge
John Le Mesurier
Skinner
Directed by
Robert Hamer
Production
Associated British Picture CorporationReviews
John Chard
9/109/6/2014
How To Win Without Actually Cheating! Humilliated in sport,losing his girl to a cad, and always taken advantage of-Henry Palfrey decides enough is enough and enrols himself at the College Of Lifemanship to learn self improvement strategies. School For Scoundrels is inspired by a trio of parody self-help books written by Stephen Potter called Gamesmanship, Lifemanship & Oneupmanship, with the subsequent result being a deftly charming satire backed up with very knowing comedy. Taking the lead role of Henry Palfrey is Ian Carmichael, though a star of many funny and successful British comedies, Carmichael is not someone I would normally term as a confident leading man, but here he does well and I think that is probably down to having the ebullient Terry-Thomas to feed off. Terry-Thoma
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