An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.An obsessively punctual comprehensive school headmaster sets out to give an important speech at the annual Headmasters' Conference.
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Nadia Sawalha
- Mandy Kostakis
- (as Nadia Carina)
Angus MacKay
- First Class Passenger
- (as Angus Mackay)
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- TriviaThe name of the school was Thomas Tompion Comprehensive School. Tompion (1639-1713) was a renowned mechanician, regarded as the father of English clockmaking. He constructed some of the first spring-balanced watches, and some of the timepieces he made are still operational.
- GoofsBy the end of the movie when Stimpson is delivering his speech and the left arm coat sleeve falls down, we can see clearly that is John Cleese himself that pulls something with his right hand making the sleeve fall.
- Quotes
Brian Stimpson: It's not the despair, Laura. I can stand the despair. It's the hope.
- SoundtracksThis Is My Lovely Day
by A.P. Herbert (as Herbert) & Vivian Ellis (as Ellis)
Sung by Ann Way (uncredited)
Chappell Music Ltd
Featured review
A scrupulously punctual headmaster in an English comprehensive school sets off for the Headmaster's Conference to deliver a keynote speech. One little slip sees him boarding the wrong train, which leads to a chain of consequences conspiring to keep him from his goal. This is one of the finest farces I've ever seen brought to the screen, written naturally enough by theatre farce-meister Michael Frayn. The frenetic energy of John Cleese in his prime really lifts this above the norm, as he hitches a ride with a student, bumps into and kidnaps an ex-girlfriend and winds up naked in a monastery. The climactic scenes at the HMC amount to perhaps the finest pay-off seen in farce. This is, indeed, a historic moment.
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- Clockwise - Recht so, Mr. Stimpson
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- Gross US & Canada
- $1,476,356
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $156,066
- Oct 12, 1986
- Gross worldwide
- $1,476,356
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