Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 5
We are now into the Top Five of my all-time
favourite school corporal punishment scenes
from mainstream movies and if I’m totally honest there’s not much more than the
width of a cigarette paper to choice between any of them. But it’s been great
fun trying to come up with a list.
Here at number five is Monk Dawson, a
story about Edward Dawson who is sent by his widowed mother to be educated at
Kirkham, an English Catholic boarding school run by Benedictine monks. He soon
realises he has ‘feelings’ for a younger pupil. He
confides in his housemaster, a priest, who concludes that it must be nipped in
the bud. And the way to do that is with six strokes of the cane which he
administers with some strength and seemingly a little satisfaction.
The film is based
on a novel by Piers Paul Read, but
it doesn’t follow the text faithfully. You can read the corporal punishment
scene from the book here.
Picture and video credit: de Warrenne
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