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	Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself sent down after a group of drunken undergraduates remove his trousers and he is accused of exposing himself. Forced to look for work, he seeks the services of an employment agency who secure for him a position at a sleazy Welsh boys' boarding school, presided over by the colourful Dr. Fagan. The school's staff are an assortment of eccentric characters: Mr Prendergast, a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes, a one-legged philanderer with his eye on Fagan's daughter; and Solomon Philbrick, an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.		Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself sent down after a group of drunken undergraduates remove his trousers and he is accused of exposing himself. Forced to look for work, he seeks the services of an employment agency who secure for him a position at a sleazy Welsh boys' boarding school, presided over by the colourful Dr. Fagan. The school's staff are an assortment of eccentric characters: Mr Prendergast, a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes, a one-legged philanderer with his eye on Fagan's daughter; and Solomon Philbrick, an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.

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{{short description|1968 film by John Krish}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=April 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=April 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher
| image = A-scene-from-the-film-Decline-and-Fall-of-a-Birdwatcher-1968-142362033917.jpg
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = A scene from the film: sports day
| director = [[John Krish]]
| producer = Ivan Foxwell
| writer = [[Ivan Foxwell]] [[Alan Hackney]] [[Hugh Whitemore]]
| based_on = {{based on|''[[Decline and Fall]]'' 1928 novel|[[Evelyn Waugh]]}}
| screenplay =
| narrator =
| starring = [[Robin Phillips]] [[Donald Wolfit]] [[Geneviève Page]] [[Felix Aylmer]] [[Colin Blakely]]
| music = [[Ron Goodwin]]
| cinematography = [[Desmond Dickinson]]
| editing = Archie Ludski
| studio = Ivan Foxwell Productions
| distributor = [[Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation]]
| released = {{Film date|1969|1|26|df=y}}
| runtime = 113 min.
| country = UK
| language = [[English language|English]]
| budget = $1,970,000
| gross =
}}

'''''Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher''''' is a 1968 British [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Krish]] and starring [[Robin Phillips]], [[Geneviève Page]] and [[Donald Wolfit]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30951 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090114003051/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/30951 |url-status=dead |archive-date=14 January 2009 |title=BFI | Film & TV Database | Decline and Fall (1968) |publisher=[[British Film Institute]] |date=16 April 2009|accessdate=13 February 2012}}</ref> It is an adaptation of the 1928 novel ''[[Decline and Fall]]'' by [[Evelyn Waugh]].

The film was made with a budget of $1,970,000.<ref>Solomon, Aubrey. ''Twentieth Century Fox: A Corporate and Financial History (The Scarecrow Filmmakers Series)''. Lanham, Maryland: Scarecrow Press, 1989. {{ISBN|978-0-8108-4244-1}}. p255</ref>

==Plot summary==

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Paul Pennyfeather is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself sent down after a group of drunken undergraduates remove his trousers and he is accused of exposing himself. Forced to look for work, he seeks the services of an employment agency who secure for him a position at a sleazy Welsh boys' boarding school, presided over by the colourful Dr. Fagan. The school's staff are an assortment of eccentric characters: Mr Prendergast, a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes, a one-legged philanderer with his eye on Fagan's daughter; and Solomon Philbrick, an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.

==Cast==
* [[Robin Phillips]] as Paul Pennyfeather
* [[Donald Wolfit]] as Doctor Augustus Fagan
* [[Geneviève Page]] as Margot Beste-Chetwynde
* [[Colin Blakely]] as Solomon Philbrick
* [[Felix Aylmer]] as Judge
* [[Robert Harris (British actor)|Robert Harris]] as Prendergast
* [[Leo McKern]] as Captain Grimes
* [[Patrick Magee (actor)|Patrick Magee]] as Maniac
* [[Donald Sinden]] as Prison Governor
* [[Griffith Jones (actor)|Griffith Jones]] as Sir Humphrey Maltravers
* [[Paul Rogers (actor)|Paul Rogers]] as Chief Warder
* [[Rodney Bewes]] as Arthur Potts
* [[Patience Collier]] as Flossie Fagan
* [[Kenneth Griffith]] as Mr Church
* [[Joan Sterndale-Bennett]] as Lady Circumference

==Box office==
According to Fox records the film required $3,100,000 in rentals to break even and by 11 December 1970 had made $1,475,000 so made a loss to the studio.<ref>{{cite book|page=[https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv/page/328 328]|title=The Fox that got away : the last days of the Zanuck dynasty at Twentieth Century-Fox|url=https://archive.org/details/foxthatgotawayt00silv|url-access=registration|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M|year=1988|publisher=L. Stuart}}</ref>

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{IMDb title|0062872}}
* {{amg movie|89061}}
* {{tcmdb title|id=72704}}
* {{AFI film|id=23680|title=Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher}}

{{Evelyn Waugh}}

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[[Category:Films directed by John Krish]]
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[[Category:Films based on works by Evelyn Waugh]]
[[Category:Films scored by Ron Goodwin]]
[[Category:1969 comedy films]]
[[Category:1969 films]]
[[Category:1968 comedy films]]
[[Category:1960s English-language films]]
[[Category:1960s British films]]

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