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| studio = Ivan Foxwell Productions

| distributor = [[Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation]]

| released = {{Film date|1969|1|26|df=y}}

| runtime = 113 min.

| country = {{USA}}UK

| language = [[English language|English]]

| budget = $1,970,000

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'''''Decline and Fall... of a Birdwatcher''''' is a 1968 [[De Luxe]] 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 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; DECLINEDecline ANDand FALLFall (1968) |publisher=Ftvdb.bfi.org.uk[[British Film Institute]] |date=2009-04-16 April 2009|accessdate=2012-02-13 February 2012}}</ref> It is an adaptation of the 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>

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==Plot summary==

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Paul Pennyfeather ([[Robin Phillips]]) is an Oxford divinity student who finds himself expelled after a gang of drunken freshmen remove his pants and he is accused of exposing himself to a girl. Looking for work, he retains the services of an unsavory employment agency that secures a position for him at a sleazy Welsh boarding school for boys, presided over by the colorful Dr. Fagan ([[Donald Wolfit]]). On staff at the school are an assortment of distasteful screwballs; Mr. Prendergast (Robert Harris) is a withdrawn former clergyman; Captain Grimes ([[Leo McKern]]) is a one-legged two-timer with his eye on Fagan's daughter, Flossie ([[Patience Collier]]); and Soloman Philbrick ([[Colin Blakely]]) is an undercover criminal posing as Fagan's butler.<ref>http://www.allmovie.com/movie/decline-and-fall-of-a-bird-watcher-v89061</ref>

==Cast==