Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 1
Distant
Bridges is a film that is not as
well known as it ought to be and contains what I believe is one of the most
realistic school caning scenes ever to be included in a mainstream movie.
That’s why I’ve made it number one in my all-time
favourite school corporal punishment scenes.
It is set in
the First world War and involves two pals who go off to war even though they
are not old enough.
This clip is
from near the beginning of the film when Arthur Fisher, against the rules, goes
into the girls-only part of the school to kiss his girl. A friend goes to warn
him that the headmaster is on the way. The Head catches Arthur and Amy and also
sees the other boy but cannot recognise him. Arthur refuses to give him up. The
Head denounces the immorality of the kiss in front of Arthur’s class and sends
him next door to be caned by Mr Smith for “six strokes of the cane for breaking
school rules and six for the Empire.”
Mr Smith does
not put enough energy into the strokes so the headmaster makes him start again
and lay them on properly.
This is the end of my presentation of my
Top Twenty favourites and you can see them all here.
Thanks to everyone who has commented
(publicly or privately) on my selection and who have shared their own
favourites. I hope you have enjoyed this feature and remember if you disagree
(in a friendly way) with my choices there are no prizes and it’s just a bit of
fun.
Maybe in the New Year we can have a think
about a Top Ten school CP scenes from TV dramas. What do you think?
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Yes, this is a favourite especially the sound of the cane and the facial expressions as the punishment proceeds. My own favourites are Spud and Flirting as they accurately capture the atmosphere in the Headmaster’s study and the whole ritual.
ReplyDeleteI can easily understand why this is a favourite as the sound effects and reactions are very realistic and the scene is also unusually long for this kind of depiction in a film.
ReplyDeleteDefinitely number one for me too. I particularly like that we see the entire episode: the crime, the interrogation, the chance to grass his mate, the lecture to the class, the sentence, the caning, and his reaction afterwards. Rarely does a film include all of this.
ReplyDeleteI also like the planning for the punishment, with the young teacher waiting in the next room with a cane. He has clearly been told in advance to give the boy the full dozen.
The icing on the cake is the caning itself. The young teacher removes his jacket in order to do a good job, and has a very decent senior cane ready to use, but even though the first three strokes sound very good to me they are deemed below par. Not only is he told to lay on properly, but he has to start again! Must be the only school caning where a single boy takes 15 of the very best. Superb.
Excellent scene! Although with a headmaster like that, I would have thought he would have demanded it be delivered bare bottomed
ReplyDeleteMy private tutor back in the late 1960s to early 1970s was given permission to cane me always on the barebottom 12 or 15 strokes I usually urinated and cried during my flogging
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