The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer is a British 1970 satirical film written by and starring Peter Cook, John Cleese, Graham Chapman, and the film's director Kevin Billington. The mysterious Michael Rimmer appears at a small and ailing British advertising agency, where the employees assume he is working on a time and motion study. However, he quickly begins to assert a de facto authority over the firm’s mostly ineffectual staff and soon acquires control of the business from the incompetent boss Ferret . Rimmer then succeeds in establishing the newly invigorated firm as the... country’s leading polling agency, and begins to make regular TV appearances as a polling expert. He subsequently moves into politics, acting as an adviser to the leader of the Tory opposition, and then becomes an MP himself, for the constituency of Budleigh Moor , along the way acquiring a trophy wife .
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| Release date: | November 12, 1970 |
| Directed by: | Kevin Billington |
| Runtime: | 100 Minutes |
| Producer: | Harry Fine |
| Editor: | Stan Hawkes |
| Music by: | John Cameron |
| Cinematography: | Alex Thomson |
| Screenplay by: | John Cleese, Kevin Billington, Graham Chapman, Peter Cook |
| Genre: | Comedy |