Spare the Rod (1961)

Directors

Leslie Norman

Cast

Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence, Richard O'Sullivan

The story

John Saunders, a supply teacher with progressive anti-corporal punishment views, arrives to take up a post at Worrell Street School in a socially deprived area of East London. He is assigned a class of pupils in their last year before leaving school and finds himself in charge of a group of rebellious, badly-behaved teenagers from poor home backgrounds, with no interest in education, who register their defiance of authority by fighting, throwing classroom furniture around, whistling and laughing during bible readings and smoking in class. The school's headmaster Jenkins is well-meaning but has long become despondent with the seemingly…

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