Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 12
Melody – the 1971 movie also known as SWALK – comes in at number 12 in my
personal all-time
favourite school corporal punishment scenes
from mainstream movies.
It’s a small very English
movie that had among its stars Jack Wild (as Tom) and
Mark Lester (as
Daniel). They had been huge hits as the Artful Dodger and Oliver Twist in the
mega-award winning musical Oliver!
Two boys don’t do their homework and are summoned to the Latin master’s
study. Before they go they visit the toilets to stuff towels down the back of
their trousers.
It’s all done
with tongue firmly in cheek, I think.
Look out for more of my favourite top 20
movie clips in coming weeks.
Picture
and video credits: British Lion Films.
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One of my favs too because slippering scenes are much rarers on film and tv even thought I'm sure in some schools it was used many more times than that cane (perhaps more informally).
ReplyDeleteI think it's true that the slipper was used a lot. Especially in the second half of last century maybe. In lots of prep schools and primary schools. And also by PE teachers and some prefects in secondary schools. There was a news article on this blog a while ago about an entire class of fourth formers (or most of them) being slippered for not having the right PE kit. And I saw an article on the corporal punishment research website about one primary school having so many slipperings. That it would have averaged ten slipperings a day every single day of the school year. And those were just the ones they took the time to record formally.
ReplyDeleteAs well as Melody. Birth of a Nation (1983) has two slipperings and another scene where one is threatened. And in Series 4 Episode 4 of Grange Hill in 1981. A new PE teacher Mr Hicks is heard giving a bare bottom slippering in the changing rooms. The actor supposedly getting slippered (Mark Burdis) was about 12 at the time.
It's interesting that slipperings in movies and TV drama appeared more often in the 1970s and 1980s. And in all three it's shown as happening in state schools. Which maybe reflects how often it happened in real life around those times.