Child’s Play (1972)

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(1620)

Country: USA
Genres: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Release: 1973-06-01
Director: Sidney Lumet
Writers: Leon Prochnik , Robert Marasco
Language: English
Stars: James Mason , Robert Preston , Beau Bridges (I) , Ron Weyand , Charles White , David Rounds , Kate Harrington , Paul Alessi , Jamie Alexander , Anthony Barletta
Runtime: 100 min
Awards: 1 nomination
AKA: Brincadeira de Criança (Brazil) , Les Yeux de Satan (Canada) , Perversión en las aulas (Spain) , Child's Play (India) , Redselstimer (Norway) , Child's Play , Child's Play (Germany) , Spirale d'odio (Italy) , Les yeux de Satan (France, French Republic) , Child's Play (Netherlands the) , Child's Play (United States of America) , Child's Play (United Kingdom) , Den dödliga leken (Sweden) , Child's Play (South Africa) , Детская игра (Russian Federation)
Plot: 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 malicious hazing and ritualistic violence that no one on the staff seemingly understands.
IMDB:tt0068369