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The Rebel (US title: Call Me Genius) is a 1961 British satirical comedy film directed by Robert Day and starring Tony Hancock. [1] It was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson . The film concerns the clash between bourgeois and bohemian cultures.
Anthony John Hancock (12 May 1924 – 25 June 1968) was an English comedian and actor. [1]High-profile during the 1950s and early 1960s, he had a major success with his BBC series Hancock's Half Hour, first broadcast on radio from 1954, then on television from 1956, in which he soon formed a strong professional and personal bond with comic actor Sid James.
The Rebel, a 1961 film starring British comedian Tony Hancock; The Rebel (1980 French film), a French film directed by Gérard Blain; The Rebel (1980 Italian film), an Italian film starring Maurizio Merli; The Rebel, an Italian film starring Penélope Cruz, known in Italian as La ribelle
The name 'The Rebel' is a reference and homage to the 1961 film starring Tony Hancock. Ben Wallers represents himself by a symbol called a Spakenkreuz, which is a swastika with a broken (or 'spastic') arm, bent backwards to cross over the previous arm.
This theme had been expanded upon in their script for Tony Hancock's film The Rebel (1961), about a civil servant who moves to Paris to become an artist. Gabriel Chevallier's novel Clochemerle (1934) was adapted by Galton and Simpson as a BBC/West German co-production in 1972.
The Punch and Judy Man is a 1963 black and white British comedy film directed by Jeremy Summers and starring Tony Hancock, Sylivia Syms, Ronald Fraser and Barbara Murray. [1] It was written by Hancock from a script by Philip Oakes, and made by Elstree Studios for the Associated British Picture Corporation.
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"The Radio Ham" is an episode from the comedy series Hancock, the final BBC series featuring British comedian Tony Hancock. First transmitted on 9 June 1961, the show was written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, and was produced by Duncan Wood.