Figure 1.--Here Garson comforts one of her new charges, the boy whose parents send him to boarding school to get rid of him. The boy is feiing a stomace ache to get a little attention.

A boy's boarding school hires a female master played by Greer Garson. This is a typical American film about a nording school where the kids are all assumed to have uncarring parents. Neither the boys or the head teacher like the idea of a lady teacher. The boys at first make life difficult for her but soon of course come to like her. The boys wear black peaked caps and blazers with long grey pants. The school is called "The Oaks" and the younger boys are the "Acorns" who are a class 10 year olds. The boys after clss can wear asual clothes. All wear jeans and othr long pants. Strangely when they get in trouble they all have to scrub the gum floor wearing casual short pants. Interestingly, Tim Considine plays the snooty boy who has trouble fitting in with the others. Interestingly in his more mafous role as Spin in "Spin and Marty" he rejected the Marty role and insisted on playing Spin the "cool" boy. Some reviewers call this a "flat commedy". It certainly is not an especially good film, but it's not all that bad. Some of the boy's give good performances. There is a lonely boy whose parents never write. There is also a brainy boy with a British accent. It was Garson's last film on her MGM contract.

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