Bottoms Up (1960 film)


Bottoms Up is a 1960 British comedy film.
It stars Jimmy Edwards in a spin-off of his TV comedy series Whack-O!, playing the seedy, alcoholic, cane-wielding headmaster of Chiselbury School, a fictional British public school. Screenplay was by Michael Pertwee, with additional dialogue by Frank Muir and Denis Norden. The cast is notable for the inclusion of juvenile actor John Mitchell, who gained world renown in the late 1960s as the drummer in The Jimi Hendrix Experience, using his adult stage name, Mitch Mitchell.

Plot summary

Professor Jim Edwards is the headmaster of Chiselbury School, a private boarding school for boys. A new head of the school's Board of Governors threatens to replace him as headmaster unless he can drastically improve the school's performance. When Edwards is also confronted by his bookmaker demanding money he owes and which he cannot pay, he devises a plan to deal with both problems by agreeing to accept into Chiselbury the bookmaker's son who will impersonate the heir to the throne of an oil-rich state in the Middle East, which he hopes will persuade other parents to enrol their sons.

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