Clockwise
Directed by	Christopher Morahan
Produced by	Michael Codron
Written by	Michael Frayn
Starring	John Cleese Penelope Wilton Stephen Moore
Music by	George Fenton
Cinematography	John Coquillon
Distributed by	Universal Pictures
Release date(s)	11 July 1986
Running time	96 min.
Language	English
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Clockwise is a 1986 British comedy film starring John Cleese. It was directed by Christopher Morahan, written by Michael Frayn and produced by Michael Codron. The film was co-produced by Moment Films and Thorn EMI Screen Entertainment. The music in the film was composed by George Fenton. Image File history File linksMetadata No higher resolution available. ... Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ... John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python. ... Penelope Wilton (born June 3, 1946 in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK) is a British actress. ... Stephen Moore (born December 11, 1937) is a British actor from Brixton, London. ... George Fenton George Fenton (born October 19, 1950) is a British composer best known for his work writing film scores and music for television, although he also writes music for the theatre. ... John Coquillon (1933 – 1987) was a Canadian cinematographer. ... Universal Studios (sometimes called Universal Pictures or Universal City Studios), a subsidiary of NBC Universal, is one of the major American film studios that has production studios and offices located at 100 Universal City Plaza Drive in Universal City, California, an unincorporated area of Los Angeles County between Los Angeles... July 11 is the 192nd day (193rd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 173 days remaining. ... // April 12 - Actor Morgan Mason marries The Go-Gos Belinda Carlisle Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger marries television journalist Maria Shriver. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... 1986 (MCMLXXXVI) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Film is a term that encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the motion picture industry. ... John Marwood Cleese (born October 27, 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award winning English comedian and actor best known for being one of the founding members of the renowned comedy group Monty Python. ... Michael Frayn (born 8 September 1933) is an English playwright and novelist. ... EMI Films is a motion picture production arm of The EMI Group, and its films were released between 1939 and 1990. ...

Overview

The film centres on Brian Stimpson (played by Cleese), the successful but obsessive headmaster of a comprehensive school. His school runs 'like clockwork'. On the way to a headmasters' conference at which he is a speaker many misfortunes befall him and his ordered world begins to unwind in a way reminiscent of Greek tragedy. A Morris 1100 car, similar to the Austin 1300 beaten with a stick by Cleese in Fawlty Towers episode 'Gourmet Night', plays a key role in the plot of this film. A Comprehensive school is a type of school providing secondary level education in England or Wales. ... Photo from original press release of Austin 1100 The Morris 1100 was a small family car built by the British Motor Corporation and, later, British Leyland, from August 15, 1962 to June 1974, developed under the ADO16 codename. ... ... Fawlty Towers was a British sitcom made by the BBC and first broadcast on BBC2 in 1975. ... Gourmet Night is the fifth episode in the first series of the BBC TV sitcom Fawlty Towers. ...

Michael Frayn's screenplay has a different opening, involving illuminated digits on a clock radio, Cleese waking up when the alarm goes off and Cleese seen naked and wet in the shower ("a sight few of us expected to see in our lifetime").

John Cleese in Clockwise

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The school used in the beginning of the film (where Cleese was Headmaster) was Menzies High School, in West Bromwich (West Midlands). King Edward's School, a private boys' day school and the east entrance to the University of Birmingham, both in Edgbaston, Birmingham, were also used as filming locations, as were Hull railway station and Grimsby's Scartho Road Hospital. The entrance to the on-screen hospital (in which the car Cleese and others are seen driving out of) is actually the entrance to the Scartho Road Cemetery in Grimsby. Map sources for West Bromwich at grid reference SO9992 West Bromwich is a town in the English county of the West Midlands, five miles north west of Birmingham lying on the A41 London to Holyhead trunk road. ... King Edwards School King Edwards School (KES) (grid reference SP052836) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. ... Website http://www. ... Edgbaston constituency shown within Birmingham Edgbaston is an area and ward in the city of Birmingham in England. ... Grimsby (also known as Great Grimsby after its Parliamentary constituency title [1]) is a seaport on the Humber Estuary in Lincolnshire, England. ...

Notable cast

• John Cleese - Brian Stimpson
• Stephen Moore - Mr. Jolly
• Alison Steadman - Gwenda Stimpson
• John Bardon - Ticket Collector
• Mark Burdis - Glen Scully
• Nadia Sawalha - Mandy Kostakis (as Nadia Carina)
• Angus MacKay - First Class Passenger
• Sharon Maiden - Laura
• Joan Hickson - Mrs. Trellis
• Constance Chapman - Mrs. Wheel
• Ann Way - Mrs. Way
• Pat Keen - Mrs. Wisely
• Geoffrey Hutchings - Mr. Wisely
• Richard Ridings - Policeman at Crash
• Geoffrey Davion - Policeman at Crash
• Sheila Keith - Pat's Mother
• Penelope Wilton - Pat
• Tony Haygarth - Ivan with the Tractor
• Michael Aldridge - Prior
• Leslie Schofield - Policeman Arresting Pat (as Leslie Scofield)
• Benjamin Whitrow - Headmaster
• Geoffrey Palmer - Headmaster
• Peter Cellier - Headmaster
• Patrick Godfrey - Headmaster
• Nick Stringer - Det. Sgt. Rice
• Sydney Livingstone - Porsche Driver (as Sidney Livingstone)

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