At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.
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| James Mason | ... | Jerome Malley | |
| Robert Preston | ... | Joseph Dobbs | |
| Beau Bridges | ... | Paul Reis | |
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Ron Weyand | ... | Father Mozian (as Ronald Weyand) |
| Charles White | ... | Father Griffin | |
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David Rounds | ... | Father Penny |
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Kate Harrington | ... | Mrs. Carter |
| Paul Alessi | ... | Student | |
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Jamie Alexander | ... | Sheppard |
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Anthony Barletta | ... | Student |
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Brian Chapin | ... | O'Donnell |
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Kevin Coupe | ... | Student |
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Bryant Fraser | ... | Jennings |
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Mark Hall Haefeli | ... | Wilson |
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Christopher Hoag | ... | Student |
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Paul Reis returns to the exclusive Catholic prep school he graduated from nine years earlier as a gym teacher. He is reunited with his former mentor and English teacher, the affable and gregarious Joseph Dobbs, the most popular member of the faculty and advisor to the junior class, and Jerome Malley, a strict disciplinarian and teacher of classical languages, whose old-fashioned methods make him heartily disliked by his pupils. Reis finds himself caught in between the two men in a struggle for the hearts, minds, and souls of the boys. Malley, nicknamed "Lash" by his students has ruled out retirement, and Dobbs, who feels that Malley has lost touch with the students, hopes to inherit the senior class. Even though Malley's mother is dying an agonizing death from cancer, the Latin and Greek teacher refuses to surrender his position as head of the senior class to a man whose motives he questions. The tensions on the faculty are mirrored in the student body, which has endured a rash of ... Written by duke1029@aol.com
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EnglishRelease Date:
1 June 1973 (Ireland) See more »Also Known As:
Den dödliga leken See more »Filming Locations:
Marymount Secondary School, Tarrytown, New York, USACompany Credits
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Marasco based the play on his experiences as a Latin, Greek, and English teacher at his alma mater, Jesuit-run Regis High School in Manhattan, where a teacher did commit suicide by jumping out of a window after giving his students an assignment. See more »Quotes
Jerome Malley: [to Dobbs in chapel] I wouldn't expect the truth from you, Dobbs, even in here.See more »
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Sidney Lumet manages to engender great tension in this curious tale about a group of satan like kids and one of their masters. Reasonable acting with an intelligent script produces satisfactory results.
The only thing missing here is a lack of focus on the mechanics of how the boys behaviour is merely down to a local cult or if something more sinister is at work; however it may have been the writers intention to leave us in two minds regarding this aspect.
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