Victorian schoolboy adventure. Freddie is sent away to a boarding school where he is very miserable and tries to escape in several instances. Finally the head of the school who made his life impossible is accused and taken away.
Production
Genuine Victorian boarding school locations, no studio fakery.
Director
Jan Darnley-Smith
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Gary Warren (Hubert) later starred in the BBC's 'The Railway Children'—this was his warm-up for iconic British childhood roles.
Part of a forgotten wave of post-'Tom Brown's School Days' British children's cinema, when boarding school misery was family entertainment.
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