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Champagne for Caesar

BBC Two
on BBC Two England

Ronald Colman stars in one of the earliest satires of television. Unemployed genius Beauregard Bottomly tries to ruin a soap company through a quiz show it sponsors. As he continually wins the cash prize, the organisers take underhand measures to upset the human encyclopedia.
Review page 56. (1950, U) (BW) ***

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Director:
Richard Whorf
Beauregard Bottomly:
Ronald Colman
Source: Radio Times

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