Bottoms Up

1960
PG
1h 30m

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Jimmy Edwards reprises his TV and radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys.Jimmy Edwards reprises his TV and radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys.Jimmy Edwards reprises his TV and radio role as the Professor trying to control a school full of naughty boys.

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10/10

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I never saw the movie until now, 2020, and 60 years hasn't aged it one bit. I remember seeing the TV show but, have never seen the movie.

Thanks to political correctness (the laws of which I've yet to see), movies have had to constrain themselves at times. Stupidity is allowed ala American tripe yet, intelligent, comedic movies are torn to shreds because they speak of, everything.

Thankfully modern comedians, male and female, are speaking about everything, and making everything normal and funny once more, something that has been lacking over the past 20 years or so.

This movie is bloody funny, if one looks closely enough. One will see the boys trying to hide smiles while working against a giant peer of his time. Everything works if one has an open mind. Like everything else, if the mind is closed, it sees nothing.

I loved it.

dcarroll74
Aug 16, 2020
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Trivia
Donald Hewlett and Melvyn Hayes would both end up being cast as regulars on the BBC sitcom 'It Ain't Half Hot Mum (1974)' (1974-1981), fourteen years after this film was released.

Goofs
When the boys are rioting in the school yard, they are deemed to be using radio controlled model planes to attack the teachers. As the models fly low over the top of the teachers who are crawling low along the ground, (it would not be allowed these days) the models are clearly not radio controlled models, but rather the control line variety. Their circular flight path makes this very obvious.

Quotes
Professor Jim Edwards: [Addressing three new boys] Now what should you know about this school? A phrase to remember is the Latin one, "Mens sana in corpore sano", "Healthy mind, healthy body". We give you the choice.