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Dec 19 1968
•2h 52m
•Drama
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Cast
See allMalcolm McDowell
Mick Travis
David Wood
Johnny Knightly
Richard Warwick
Wallace
Christine Noonan
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