Raising the Wind (1961) — comedy film. Directed by Gerald Thomas. Starring James Robertson Justice, Leslie Phillips, Paul Massie, Kenneth Williams. This page maps 8 characters and 11 relationships between them as an interactive character network.
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Music students navigate poverty, performance failures, professional pressure, romantic hopes, and diverging futures.
Comedy · 6.3/10 · 91 min · 1961
'Carry On' director Gerald Thomas helms this comedy caper featuring early appearances by James Robertson Justice, Sid James, Leslie Phillips, Kenneth Williams, Liz Fraser and Eric Barker. The film follows the hi-jinks of a group of music students who move into a shared flat in order to cut costs and have somewhere to practice their instruments. Things get tricky when Mervyn Hughes (Phillips) accidentally sells one of his compositions to an advertising agency and risks losing his scholarship. Can he and his friends find a way to raise the money to buy back the song rights?
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