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Country
Production
Genre
Budget
$500 000
Box office
$4 600 000
Director
Actors
Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster, Robert Swann, Hugh Thomas, Michael Cadman, Peter Sproule, Peter Jeffrey
All actors and roles (10)
All actors and roles (10)
Scenario
John Howlett
Producer
Camera operator
Composer
Marc Wilkinson
Artist
Jocelyn Herbert
Audition
Editing
Short description
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.
What's left behind the scenes
- The film's title was suggested by a secretary from Memorial Films, who was tired of listening to the director and screenwriter endlessly going through possible options.
- The screenplay the film was based on was called «Crusaders» (written in 1960) and was set at Tonbridge School, where its authors studied. Location shooting was planned there, but the school administration refused, fearing for the institution's reputation, as such boys' boarding schools were already being attacked by the press at the time.
- The film was shot at Cheltenham College, where director Lindsay Anderson once studied, as well as at Aldenham School.
- The screenplay the film was based on was called "The Crusaders" (written in 1960) and was set at Tonbridge School, where its authors were educated. Location shooting was planned there, but the school authorities refused, fearing for the reputation of the institution, as such boarding schools for boys were already being vilified by the press at the time.
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