The Dollar Bottom Explained

The Dollar Bottom
Director:	Roger Christian
Producer:	Lloyd Phillips Ian Scorer Neil Vine-Miller
Starring:	Robert Urquhart Rikki Fulton
Music:	Trevor Jones
Cinematography:	Roger Pratt
Editing:	Richard Trevor
Distributor:	Cinema International Corporation
Runtime:	33 minutes
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English

The Dollar Bottom is a 1981 British short film directed by Roger Christian. It won an Oscar at the 53rd Academy Awards in 1981 for Best Short Subject.^[1]

Plot

Schoolboys at a private school in Edinburgh set up an insurance scheme against being caned by the teachers. The scheme proves so successful that they float the company on the stock market.

Cast

• Robert Urquhart as Headmaster
• Rikki Fulton as Karl
• Jonathan McNeil as Taylor 2
• Angus Reid as Graham
• Iain Andrew as Browne
• David Bullion as Macadam
• Martin Thom as Macbeth
• Neil Crossan as Knox
• John Field as Hepburn
• Peter Adair as Moncrieff
• David Mowat as Porter
• Ruth Munroe as Mrs. Maclaren
• Alexander Bell as Schoolboy
• Robin Gow as Schoolboy
• Bruce Barrons as Schoolboy
• Gareth Williams as Schoolboy

Notes and References

1. Web site: The-Dollar-Bottom - Cast, Crew, Director and Awards - NYTimes.com. https://web.archive.org/web/20110520030541/http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/300460/The-Dollar-Bottom/details. dead. 20 May 2011. Movies & TV Dept.. The New York Times. 2011. 2 December 2015.