Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher is a 1968 British comedy film directed by John Krish and starring Robin Phillips, Geneviève Page and Donald Wolfit.[1] It is an adaptation of the 1928 novel Decline and Fall by Evelyn Waugh.
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Directed by | John Krish |
Written by | Ivan Foxwell Alan Hackney Hugh Whitemore |
Based on | Decline and Fall 1928 novel by Evelyn Waugh |
Produced by | Ivan Foxwell |
Starring | Robin Phillips Donald Wolfit Geneviève Page Felix Aylmer Colin Blakely |
Cinematography | Desmond Dickinson |
Edited by | Archie Ludski |
Music by | Ron Goodwin |
Production company | Ivan Foxwell Productions |
Distributed by | Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation |
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Running time | 113 min. |
Country | UK |
Language | English |
Budget | $1,970,000 |
The film was made with a budget of $1,970,000.[2]
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Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself sent down after a group of drunken undergraduates remove his trousers and he is accused of exposing himself. Forced to look for work, he seeks the services of an employment agency who secure for him a position at a sleazy Welsh boys' boarding school, presided over by the colourful Dr. Fagan. The school's staff are an assortment of eccentric characters: Mr Prendergast, a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes, a one-legged philanderer with his eye on Fagan's daughter; and Solomon Philbrick, an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.
According to Fox records the film required $3,100,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $1,475,000 so made a loss to the studio.[3]
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