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Spare the Rod
Spare the Rod is a 1961 British social drama directed by Leslie Norman and starring Max Bygraves, Geoffrey Keen, Donald Pleasence and Richard O'Sullivan. The film was based on a novel by Michael Croft and deals with an idealistic schoolteacher coming to a tough area of East London to teach in a secondary modern school at a time when such establishments were largely starved of attention and resources from education authorities and were widely regarded as dumping grounds with sub-par teaching standards, for the containment of non-academically inclined
's behaviour. The father favours discipline and a beating for the child, the mother wants to spare the rod and reward Tony for so freely expressing himself. The resulting marital bust up causes the wife to leave for her parents home, and from thence to Dieppe.
Cast.
- Cecil Parker as Dr. Howard Fleming
- Anne Crawford as Clare Fleming
- Derek Bond as Tim Shields
- Barbara Murray as Joan Parsons
- Mervyn Johns as Alfred Parsons
- Barbara Everest as Mrs. Parsons
- Edward