Child's Play (1972) on Netflix
PG19721h 40mDramaMysteryThriller
Paul Reis returns to his old Catholic boys' school as a gym teacher and finds two veteran instructors locked in a feud, while the students turn on one another.
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Plot summary
Paul Reis attended St. Charles, a Catholic boarding school for boys, and comes back to teach physical education there. He is reunited with headmaster Father Frank Mozian, English teacher Joseph Dobbs and Latin and Greek teacher Jerome Malley. Malley looks after his sick mother, and the boys fear and dislike him for his rough manner; he says they have been making obscene prank calls to her. Paul watches the growing hostility between Dobbs, who wants Malley's place, and Malley himself. He also sees pupils bully one another, among them a boy named Travis, beaten in the gym locker room. Father Penny tells him that six classmates have been seriously injured.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Child's Play (1972)
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- Marlon Brando signed to play Joseph Dobbs but dropped out after three days of rehearsals, having asked for changes to the screenplay and for his friend Wally Cox to be cast as Father George Penny; Robert Preston replaced him and first-time producer David Merrick sued Brando for breach of contract.
