Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 13
I’ve always kept a place in my heart for
Goodbye Mr Chips, the film I must have first seen on television in England in
the 1960s. In all honesty it’s a creaky old affair but it contains the first
caning scene I ever saw and it comes in at number 13 in my personal all-time
favourite school corporal punishment scenes
from mainstream movies.
The writers of the 1939 film
version by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
British Studios and starring Robert Donat invented the caning scene
which wasn’t in the original novella written
by James Hilton.
Look out for more of my favourite top 20
movie clips in coming weeks.
Picture
credits: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer British Studios
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Your top 20 clips is proving to bring some lost highlights. This one is surprising effective in showing the punishment in shadow. It also showed the sudden decision by the headmaster that a beating was required and showed that often once the caning started it was quickly applied. Considering the age of the film its one of the more accurate canings I have seen, only possibly losing marks as the pupil seems to show no reaction to what on the face of it was a very firmly delivered six of the best from the cane.
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