This film was released in 1968-year of rebellion.A story about life in a public school split into several parts.Of particular interest to me as I went to private school from 1964-1971 as a dayboy.A truly British Film with lots of good character actors-for example Geoffrey Chater and Peter Jeffrey.Whilst a film very much of its time,it hasn't dated at all.Malcolm McDowall is excellent-one of his best.A classic with fantasy mixed in with reality-some of those things happened in my school-but not final chapter on speech day.Buy it-you won't be disappointed.

this film really does show that us brits can make an absolute materpiece. this 1968 film shows us what it was like if you lived in a strick english boarding school. it shows a young malcolm mcdowell performing his best role ever and lindsay anderson using some obscure strange scenes which are'nt used these days. the fact that some parts of the film are shot in black and white are purely because of the low budget even though the director uses blank and white in the scenes that work best in black and white. if....only there were such outstanding films nowadays eh ah well

Interesting & haunting.I have not seen it for years but I can remember it as though it was yesterday.The music is still ringing in my ear's ....."Sanctus".A child of it's time but still relevant today.