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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.
School for Scoundrels: Directed by Robert Hamer, Hal E. Chester, Cyril Frankel. With Ian Carmichael, Terry-Thomas, Alastair Sim, Janette Scott. A young man finds a very special school. It teaches him how to take advantage of people. He begins to put the lessons into operation.
A school that teaches one-upmanship enables a chronic loser (Ian Carmichael) to embarrass a rival (Terry-Thomas) and woo the woman he loves.
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.
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School For Scoundrels (1960) -- (Movie Clip) Like A Wild Uncivilized Savage Quick and clever exposition, hero Palfrey (Ian Carmichael) leads Potter (Alastair Sim), head of the “Lifemanship” school in which he’s just enrolled, into flashback introducing Janette Scott (as April), then three employees who report to pompous Gloatbridge ...
52% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings. In the hope of winning the woman of his dreams, Amanda (Jacinda Barrett), a lovelorn meter-reader (Jon Heder) enrolls in a confidence-building class.
