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Originally Posted by Justin101  Early Richard Attenborough film from the BFI, sounds good this. Lower class kid gets sent to a middle/upper class boarding school as an experiment.  |
Very controversial in its day
It was the first time that the word 'arse' was spoken in a film, as in "
a kick up the arse". [This]
"presented an issue for the U.K. censors at the time, as the use of profanity in films was frowned upon. Eventually the censors relented on the grounds that this was a drama about the working and middle classes, and the scene was left in. This paved the way for realistic language including mild profanity in future U.K. dramatic movies."