The Guinea Pig (1948)

Directors

Roy Boulting

Cast

Richard Attenborough, Sheila Sim, Bernard Miles, Cecil Trouncer

The story

The "guinea pig" of the title is 14-year-old Jack Read, a tobacconist's son who, following the Fleming Report, is given a scholarship to Saintbury, an exclusive public school. Read's uncouth behaviour causes him difficulties in fitting into the school.

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