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Director: Gordon Parry
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From Time Out Film Guide
Master Howard Davies (later a successful BBC producer who worked on the early Monty Python series) may be a precursor of the Mark Lester school of terribly English moppetry, but he doesn't detract too much from this soldily carpentered third screen version of Thomas Hughes' famous Rugby story - atmospherically shot on location in the old school itself. Newton restrains himself admirably as the ultimately good-hearted headmaster, but it's Forrest's show as the caddish bully Flashman, dispensing ignominy with a curl of the lip and a dash of hauteur before his eventual and not unexpected comeuppance.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Gordon Parry
Producer: Brian Desmond Hurst
Cast: John Howard Davies, Robert Newton, Diana Wynyard, Hermione Baddeley, Kathleen Byron, James Hayter, John Forrest, John Charlesworth, Michael Hordern, Max Bygraves, Rachel Gurney full cast
Duration: 96 mins
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