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Release Year: 1968

Runtime: 112 min

Rating: R

Director: Lindsay Anderson

Cast: Malcolm McDowell, David Wood, Richard Warwick, Christine Noonan, Rupert Webster

Studios: Memorial Enterprises

In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. Three Lower Sixth students, Wallace, Johnny and leader Mick Travis decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.

Special Features:

Restored high-definition digital transfer

Approved by cinematographer Miroslav Ondrícek and assistant editor Ian Rakoff, with uncompressed monaural soundtrack.

Audio commentary

Featuring film critic and historian David Robinson and actor Malcolm McDowell.

Episode of the Scottish TV series Cast and Crew from 2003

Featuring interviews with McDowell, Ondrícek, Rakoff, director’s assistant Stephen Frears, producer Michael Medwin, and screenwriter David Sherwin.

New interview with actor Graham Crowden

Thursday’s Children

A 1954 Academy Award-winning documentary about a school for deaf children, directed by Lindsay Anderson and Guy Brenton and narrated by Richard Burton.

PLUS

A booklet featuring an essay by critic David Ehrenstein as well as reprinted pieces by Sherwin and critic Paul Ryan.

Technical Specifications:

• 102 minutes
• Color/Black & White
• Monaural
• 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio