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School for Scoundrels (1960)

School for Scoundrels poster
Directed by
Robert Hamer
Genre
comedy film
Country
United Kingdom
Runtime
1h 34m
Rated
PG
Rating
7.0 of 10 from 72 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A British man learns to be more confident and assertive at a secret school run by a charismatic instructor. He uses these new skills to win over a woman.

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What happens

School for Scoundrels (also known as School for Scoundrels Or How to Win without Actually Cheating) is a 1960 British comedy film directed by Robert Hamer (and, uncredited, Cyril Frankel and Hal E. Chester) and starring Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Janette Scott and Alastair Sim. It was inspired by the Gamesmanship series of books by Stephen Potter. The film has been remade twice: in Bollywood as Chhoti Si Baat (1975) and in Hollywood as School for Scoundrels (2006). (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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