turns out to be a copy of his Aphrodite - and Mrs Carreras accuses him of assaulting her. The statue drops through the ship and Tony escapes on the yacht's launch. Still dressed as a bird, Tony goes to the airport and says he wants to fly to Britain. "Wouldn't you rather take a plane?" the attendant quips. He returns to Mrs Cravat's, now finding Paul living with her and working in an office, though still painting as a hobby. Tony persuades Paul to lend him some new paintings, promising to explain later. Showing these paintings at the London exhibition, Tony reveals that Paul is the true artist and "the rubbish" is Tony's work. Leaving Paul to enjoy his newfound fame and fortune Tony returns to Mrs Cravat's and resumes work on his Aphrodite - with Mrs Cravat as the model. Cast Tony Hancock...Anthony Hancock George Sanders...Sir Charles Broward Paul Massie...Paul Margit Saad...Margot Grégoire Aslan...Carreras Dennis Price...Jim Smith Irene Handl...Mrs. Crevatte John Le Mesurier...Office manager Liz Fraser...Waitress Mervyn Johns...Manager of Art Gallery Peter Bull...Manager of Art Gallery Nanette Newman...Josey Marie Burke...Madame Laurent Oliver Reed...Artist in Cafe Mario Fabrizi...Coffee Bar attendant Bernard Rebel...Art dealer John Wood...Poet Victor Platt...Dockside Official Production and themes The Rebel attempts to transfer Hancock's radio and television comedy persona to the big screen, and several regular supporting cast members of Hancock's Half Hour also appeared, including John Le Mesurier, Liz Fraser and Mario Fabrizi. The since-demolished railway station used at the beginning of the film, was Bingham Road in the Croydon suburb of Addiscombe, named Fortune Green South in the film. The dress-code and regimentation at the railway station had been depicted earlier in 1952's Something Money Can't Buy, during Anthony Steel's daydreaming reverie sequence, working at the local government office. In The Rebel, existentialist themes are explored by mocking Parisian intellectual life and portraying the pretensions of the English middle class. Galton and Simpson had previously satirised pseudo-intellectuals in the Hancock's Half Hour radio episode "The Poetry Society" (1959), in which Hancock attempts to imitate the style of the pretentious poets and fails, and is infuriated when his idiot friend Bill does the same and wins their enthusiastic approval. The film also includes scenes parodying modern art. The scene showing Hancock splashing paint onto a canvas and riding a bike over it is a lampoon of the work of Action Painter William Green, while the childlike