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1968 · 112 mins · English
Directed by
Lindsay Anderson
Starring
Malcolm McDowell, Arthur Lowe, Charles Sturridge, Anthony Nicholls, Mary MacLeod, Brian Pettifer

In a traditional English boys’ boarding school, a rigid social hierarchy places power in the hands of aloof teachers and cruel Upper Sixth prefects. When three Lower Sixth students—Wallace, Johnny and their leader Mick Travis—reach a breaking point, they devise a daring plan to overturn the entrenched privilege and force a reckoning.

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