A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.A new school teacher learns that the previous teacher was killed by his pupils, and he fears the same will happen to him.
- Cary Farthingale
- (as Anthony Haygarth)
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- TriviaDavid Hemmings had clearly forgotten the climax to this film because in his autobiography he describes a totally different ending to the film.
- Quotes
[John Ebony's first day teaching. The students are taking turns reading from a history book]
Wittering: [faintly] hypotenuse... hypotenuse... hypotenuse
John Ebony: Who's that muttering?
Wittering: Me, sir.
Lipstrob: He can't help it, sir.
Cuthbun: He says 'hypotenuse' all the time, sir.
Ankerton: He likes the word.
Aggeridge: Mr. Pelham said he was 'hypotenus-ed' by it, sir!
[general laughter]
John Ebony: Stop it! Very well, you've had ample warning. This form will kept in on Saturday afternoon from 2:30.
Cloistermouth: It's not a good idea, sir.
John Ebony: Why is that, Cloistermouth?
Cloistermouth: Mr. Pelham tried it once, sir.
Terhew: The week before last.
Cloistermouth: And that's why we killed him, sir.
[long silence]
- Crazy creditsIn the closing credits, when the names of actors playing the schoolboys appear they are listed in alphabetical order according to the character's surname. This is so as to resemble the class's register. The character of 'Zigo' appears at the very end but as he never appears in the film, instead of an actor being credited, it merely says "Zigo....Absent".
- ConnectionsReferenced in F (2010)
- SoundtracksAngel Voices Ever Singing
(uncredited)
Music by Edwin Monk
Words by Francis Pott
Maestro Mackenzie's profoundly disquieting thriller can sit quite uncomfortably alongside equally unsettling creepy classics, 'Village of the Damned', 'Symptoms', and 'The Wicker Man' as one of British genre cinema's all-time doomiest, black-hearted horror films! A razor-edged, highly charged nightmare with a palpably disturbing atmosphere. As the genuinely unnerving narrative unfolds, ace director Mackenzie mercilessly ratchets up the pulse-quickening perversity, memorably orchestrating a vivid number of sinister sequences, culminating starkly with an especially distressing dénouement that remains no less potent long after the credits have rolled! (FYI, the ICA or NFT really should give this masterpiece a full bells & whistles screening!) 'Unman Wittering & Zigo' is highly recommended, this oppressively downbeat psychodrama's emotional impact reverberates no less devastatingly today than upon its original release in 1971!
- Weirdling_Wolf
- Jan 23, 2014
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- Runtime1 hour 42 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1