Roommates

Original title: Raising the Wind

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In order to cut costs and conduct practice sessions, a group of students studying at an elite music school decide to stay together. Soon, one of them finds himself in trouble.In order to cut costs and conduct practice sessions, a group of students studying at an elite music school decide to stay together. Soon, one of them finds himself in trouble.In order to cut costs and conduct practice sessions, a group of students studying at an elite music school decide to stay together. Soon, one of them finds himself in trouble.

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Trivia
The conductor's joke about the girl's harp sounding like skeletons making love on a tin roof is actually a paraphrase of a quip from famed British conductor Thomas Beecham, who described the sound of the harpsichord (NOT harp) as being like "skeletons copulating on a tin roof."

Goofs
When Mervyn (Leslie Phillips) writes his tune, he is drunk and the story about it gets sent to a music paper, gets printed and published and sent to the shops, and gets read all before his hangover from that time wears off.

Quotes
Sir Benjamin Boyd: Madam, must you make that noise?
Jill Clemons: Yes, Sir Benjamin.
Sir Benjamin Boyd: Is there some defect in your instrument?
Jill Clemons: Oh no, Sir Benjamin.
Sir Benjamin Boyd: It would appear to sound like two skeletons making love on a tin roof.
Jill Clemons: I'm sorry, Sir Benjamin, I had an accident on the way here.
Taxi Driver: [arriving] I'll say she had an accident. Cost me a fare that has. And what I say is, what about my flippin' bumper?
Sir Benjamin Boyd: And who the devil may you be, sir?
Taxi Driver: I just want to exchange addresses with the young lady.
Sir Benjamin Boyd: Although you might find it hard to believe, this is a concert hall and not a marriage bureau.
Jill Clemons: I'm sorry, Sir Benjamin, it's my fault. I backed into him.
Sir Benjamin Boyd: Madam, tacit if you please. And you sir, shut your cake hole. If you wish to interview the young lady, I must ask you to wait outside. And I may add that if her driving is on a par with her musicianship, you may think yourself extremely fortunate to be alive.
[to the orchestra]
Sir Benjamin Boyd: Now gentlemen, we shall take the final section. From bar 224 if you please.

Soundtracks
Scapino: A Comedy Overture
(1940, revised 1949) (uncredited)
Music by William Walton

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7/10

"His Bach is worse than his bite!"

Although largely the work of the 'Carry On' team (it was a pet project of producer Peter Rogers') it actually feels more like one of the 'Doctor' films with bluer jokes - shot like them in pretty colour - and dealing with the travails of a mature-looking bunch of students in the days when students wore jackets & ties and £4 a week seemed a steep rent. And, of course, there's the presence of James Robertson Justice and University College Hospital standing in for the London Academy of Music and the Arts instead of St.Swithin's (while Leslie Phillips later switched to the 'Doctor' series).

This is possibly the only movie on which the composer is also the author of the script, Bruce Montgomery (briefly glimpsed conducting Handel's 'Messiah' in one sequence) being the real name of the eminent crime writer Edmund Crispin whose only screenplay this was.