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Comedy TV series about school where the headmaster often uses the cane, although usually takes place off-stage. Tom Brown's Schooldays: 1971 Two scenes of canings carried out by the school headmaster. Tommy Steele in Search of Charlie Chaplin: 1971 A young Chaplin is birched during his time in a workhouse. Thursday's Child: 1972
Pierrepoint is a 2005 British film directed by Adrian Shergold about the life of British executioner Albert Pierrepoint. The film premiered at the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival [1] and was released in the UK on 7 April 2006. [2] In the United States, it had a limited theatrical release at three screens on 7 June 2007, grossing $21,766.
Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film starring Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn, and co-produced and directed by Tim Robbins, who adapted the screenplay from the 1993 non-fiction book of the same name. It marked Peter Sarsgaard ’s film debut. In the film, Sister Helen Prejean (Sarandon) establishes a special relationship with ...
Hang 'Em High is a 1968 American revisionist Western film directed by Ted Post and written by Leonard Freeman and Mel Goldberg. It stars Clint Eastwood as Jed Cooper, an innocent man who survives a lynching; Inger Stevens as a widow who helps him; Ed Begley as the leader of the gang that lynched Cooper; and Pat Hingle as the federal judge who hires him as a Deputy U.S. Marshal.
TNT. Release. March 3, 1996. (1996-03-03) Andersonville is a 1996 American television film directed by John Frankenheimer about a group of Union soldiers during the American Civil War who are captured by the Confederates and sent to an infamous Confederate prison camp. The film is loosely based on the diary of John Ransom, a Union soldier ...
The Execution of Private Slovik is a nonfiction book by William Bradford Huie, published in 1954, [1] and an American television movie that aired on NBC on March 13, 1974. [2] [3] The film was written for the screen by Richard Levinson, William Link, and director Lamont Johnson; the film stars Martin Sheen, [4] and also features Charlie Sheen in his second film in a small role.
English. Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Italian: Salò o le 120 giornate di Sodoma), billed on-screen as Pasolini's 120 Days of Sodom on English-language prints [3] and commonly referred to as simply Salò (Italian: [saˈlɔ]), is a 1975 political art horror film directed and co-written by Pier Paolo Pasolini. The film is a loose adaptation ...
Sinister (film) Sinister. (film) Sinister is a 2012 supernatural horror film directed by Scott Derrickson and written by C. Robert Cargill and Derrickson. It stars Ethan Hawke as a struggling true-crime writer whose discovery of snuff films depicting gruesome murders and strange supernatural elements in his new house puts his family in danger.