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{{short description|1956 film by John Paddy Carstairs}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=June 2016}}
{{Use British English|date=June 2016}}
{{Infobox film
| name = Up in the World
| image = "Up_in_the_World".jpg
| caption = Original British 1-sheet poster
| director = [[John Paddy Carstairs]]
| producer = [[Earl St. John]] [[Hugh Stewart (film editor)|Hugh Stewart]]
| writer = [[Jack Davies (screenwriter)|Jack Davies]] Henry Blyth [[Peter Blackmore (screenwriter)|Peter Blackmore]]
| starring = [[Norman Wisdom]] [[Maureen Swanson]] [[Jerry Desmonde]]
| music = [[Philip Green (composer)|Philip Green]]
| cinematography = [[Jack E. Cox]]
| editing = John Shirley
| studio = [[Rank Organisation]]
| distributor = J. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
| released = 6 December 1956 {{small|(UK)}}
| runtime = 87 minutes
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| budget =
| gross =
}}
'''''Up in the World''''' is a 1956 black and white [[comedy film]] directed by [[John Paddy Carstairs]] and starring [[Norman Wisdom]], [[Maureen Swanson]] and [[Jerry Desmonde]]. It was produced by [[Rank Organisation|Rank]].<ref name="hugh">{{cite web|url=https://historyproject.org.uk/interview/hugh-stewart|website=British Entertainment History Project|title=Hugh Stewart|date=22 Nov 1989}}</ref>

==Plot==
Norman is given a job as a window cleaner at a stately home by the Labour Exchange.

He quickly encounters young Sir Reginald, an obnoxious teenager has an extremely over-protective mother. Due to Reginald's age, the estate is run by the pompous Major Willoughby.

The whole household must kowtow to Reginald. This is epitomised in an estate football match where everyone understands that Reginald must win but Norman doesn't understand this.

Meanwhile Norman develops a romance with the maid, Jeannie.

Reginald demands that Norman take him to London to see a magic show. He tortures him by tickling his feet with a feather and demands that they go that evening... which means he can't take Jeannie to the dance.

Norman is tricked into breaking the TV and a bogus repair van comes to the house. The have come to kidnap Regi but take Maurice by mistake, as REgi has gone off with Norman.

Norman and Regi go to a show and have dinner together. By coincidence it is owned by the kidnappers. When police arrive the kidnappers pin the blame on Norman. Regi gets a bump on the head a and remembers nothing. Norman gets sentenced to 25 years in prison. But, as the one serving the longest sentence he becomes the boss of the group of prisoners. Cleaning prison windows on a long ladder he accidentally escapes.

Heading back to Banderville Hall a series of mishaps ends with him looking like a paratrooper and enters the estate with an army group searching for the escapee. Norman tracks down Jeannie at an ongoing fancy dress party and dresses himself as a harem girl. After a dance with the Major he tries to get Regi to remember him.

Jeannie and Norman fight off guests and army from the gallery. The army starts to use [[tear gas]] but Norman bats it back into the party-goers. In the commotion Regi bumps his head and remembers everything.

Norman and Jeannie get married.with The Sergeant and his men as wedding guests in morning dress.

==Cast==
* [[Norman Wisdom]] as Norman
* [[Maureen Swanson]] as Jeannie Andrews
* [[Jerry Desmonde]] as Major Willoughby
* [[Michael Caridia]] as Sir Reginald
* [[Colin Gordon]] as Fletcher Hethrington
* [[Ambrosine Phillpotts]] as Lady Banderville
* [[Michael Ward (actor)|Michael Ward]] as Maurice
* [[Jill Dixon]] as Sylvia
* [[Edwin Styles]] as Conjuror
* [[Hy Hazell]] as Yvonne
* [[William Lucas (actor)|William Lucas]] as Mick Bellman
* [[Lionel Jeffries]] as Wilson
* [[Cyril Chamberlain]] as Harper
* [[Michael Brennan (actor)|Michael Brennan]] as Prison Warder
* [[Eddie Leslie]] as Max
* [[Bernard Bresslaw]] as Williams, his cell-mate

==Critical reception==
*The ''[[Radio Times]]'' wrote, "for his fourth starring vehicle, Norman Wisdom teamed up once more with director John Paddy Carstairs. However, this tacky comedy gave notice that the winning formula was already beginning to wear thin...The worst aspect of this maudlin mishmash is the fact that Wisdom gets to warble so often. No wonder he ends up in prison".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.radiotimes.com/film/j45kv/up-in-the-world |title=Up in the World | Film review and movie reviews |publisher=Radio Times |date=2013-04-08 |access-date=2014-06-10}}</ref>
*''[[TV Guide]]'' called the film a "routine British comedy".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://movies.tvguide.com/up-in-the-world/review/121898 |title=Up In The World Review |publisher=Movies.tvguide.com |access-date=2014-06-10}}</ref>
==Box office==
According to ''Kinematograph Weekly'' the film was "in the money" at the British box office in 1957.<ref>{{cite magazine|first=Josh|last=Billings|magazine=Kinematograph Weekly|title=Others in the money|date=12 December 1957|page=7}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}
*{{cite book|last=Harper|first=Sue |title=British Cinema of the 1950s: The Decline of Deference|year=2007|publisher=OUP Oxford|isbn=978-0-19-815935-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrXKOD4HnS0C&q=%22up+in+the+world%22+%22norman+wisdom%22&pg=PA257|author2=Vincent Porter |access-date=3 June 2010|page=257|quote=.... ''Trouble in Store'', which unexpectedly became the second most popular film of 1954, led Rank to make six more films with [Wisdom] during the 1950s: ''One Good Turn'' (1954), ''Man of the Moment'' (1955), ''Up in the World'' (1956), ....}}

==External links==
*{{tcmdb title|id=556998}}
*{{IMDb title|0049906}}

{{John Paddy Carstairs}}

[[Category:1956 films]]
[[Category:Films directed by John Paddy Carstairs]]
[[Category:1956 comedy films]]
[[Category:Films shot at Pinewood Studios]]
[[Category:British comedy films]]
[[Category:1950s English-language films]]
[[Category:1950s British films]]
[[Category:British black-and-white films]]

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