Favourite School CP Movie Clips: 2

 

Housemaster was one of the first movies I saw on British television that had a scene of a school caning. And what a scene: and that’s why I make it number two in my all-time favourite school corporal punishment scenes from mainstream movies.

It occurs right at the start of the film where Bimbo is bent across two chairs in the Winchester style while the housemaster delivers a pretty authentic-looking Six.

The film goes downhill after that and is a rather typical English comedy from the 1930s that hasn’t travelled too well.

Housemaster started out as a novel written by Ian Hay and was turned into a play that became a bit of a mainstay of repertory theatre in its time (more about that here).

You can read how the scene is written in the book here. Also, there’s a second caning scene later in the film and you can see that here.

Picture and video credits: Network video and Studiocanal films.

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