Top Of The Form is a 1953 British film directed by John Paddy Carstairs. It's based on an original story by Anthony Kimmins, Val Guest, Leslie Arliss and Marriott Edgar. The screenplay is by John Paddy Carstairs, Patrick Kirwan and Ted Willis with additional dialogue by Sid Colin.
In a story that has some similarities to the Will Hay comedy Good Morning, Boys in that a bookmaker hides out from some baddies by pretending to be a professor at a boy's school. Ronald Shiner plays the bookie and he's not quite as entertaining as Will to me. Much of the action is set at the school with jokes about school, exams, bookmaking, that sort of thing. There's a trip to Paris that sees the students in the casinos and getting in the middle of a plot the steal the French Crown Jewels.
Some of his fellow staff and students are played by Alfie Bass, Anthony Newley, Howard Marion-Crawford, Richard Wattis, Kynaston Reeves, Martin Benson, Harry Fowler, Gerald Campion, Ronnie Corbett and plenty I don't know. They did a good job and I got a laugh or two. Glad I picked it up.
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