EXTENDED Punishment Served Wholesale, 5 Boys For The Stroke Of One - JIMMY EDWARDS, MITCH MITCHELL

@tederbate - It is very much "Bottoms Up!" in this short, heavily edited video showing wholesale corporal punishment of recalcitrant boys by an enthusiastic headmaster bent on saving time. Older British viewers will probably recognise the man as Jimmy Edwards, a very well-known comic actor from the 1950s onwards on radio, television and film, one of his most popular characters being the "Whack-O!", cane-wielding headmaster of an English boarding school as portrayed here.
Before embarking on a career in entertainment, Jimmy had been a World War Two RAF pilot and won the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), which is a great testament to the real person behind the humour. And the boy who turns and protests, Wendover (John Mitchell aka Mitch Mitchell), became the original drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. As Jimmy Edwards famously played the trombone, did the two ever jam, one wonders? Very unlikely ! ! !
It is only fair to mention Arthur Howard, also seen here, reprising his role from the original television series "Whack-O!" as Jimmy Edwards' long-suffering sidekick, Mr. Pettigrew; Howard was the younger brother of the internationally famous (and ill-fated) film star, Leslie Howard.

[@VillageOfTheDarned1]

I bought the DVD of this one a while back. Very enjoyable.

[@ColonelMarcellus]

It almost looked as if their hands were tied as they approached the steps.

[@tederbate]

@MarcellusTheGreen - It sure did - with the music, a pastiche on a group heading to the guillotine.

[@whatsmyname2975]

Yea

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

Interestingly Mitch Mitchell also played Jennings

[@tederbate]

@PaulMcCaffreyfmac - Thanks for that, John "Mitch" Mitchell played Jennings in the 1958 BBC TV series, "Jennings At School". My family was too poor to own a TV back then, but I did enjoy the Jennings series on BBC radio "Children's Hour". On the darker side, the portrayal of an English preparatory boarding school for boys in the "Jennings" books / series is some distance away from reality.

[@PaulMcCaffreyfmac]

@@tederbate I didn't see Jennings on the tv either though I loved the Jennings and the Just William books. The Just Williams still read really well though the Jennings books not so much. I found a photo by chance of a small boy and his pal (presumably Derbyshire) dressed in macs and carrying little leather suitcases. It was instantly recognisable as Mitch whom, as a massive Hendrix fan, I had assumed to have been a drummer all his life. Mind you he could have been practicing on his first kit while doing the child acting. Who knows? Having been born in '53 I well remember Jimmy Edwards as an early comedy presence, on radio particularly.

[@tederbate]

@PaulMcCaffreyfmac - One thing's for sure, the world of Jennings, Derbyshire & William Brown were a million miles away from the world of Jimi Hendrix! To a lesser degree, from my upbringing as well; it's funny how I absorbed the privileged world of the affluent classes without causing dissatisfaction in my own much poorer situation, it was all taken for granted.

[@ghostman7768]

This surely won't ever happen today 😬

[@tederbate]

Firstly, this is obviously a comedy. Secondly, corporal punishment is happening today all over the world in less developed / "civilised" countries, not least the most populous country in the world and its neighbouring countries.