The Guinea Pig

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The Guinea Pig ★★½ The Outsider 1948

Jack Read (Attenborough), the son of a tobacconist, is sent to a posh public school as an experiment but finds problems between his simple upbringing and the reactions of teachers and other students. 97m/B VHS . GB Richard Attenborough, Joan Hickson, Bernard Miles, Sheila Sim, Robert Flemyng, Timothy Bateson; D: Roy Boulting; W: Bernard Miles, Roy Boulting.

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