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When I was growing up, the John Hughes-style American high-school movie didn’t speak to me at all. In real life, I never saw the losers winning, or the shy guys getting the girl. Not least because, as I attended a single-sex private school, there weren’t any girls.

But Lindsay Anderson’s stirring 1968 satirical drama ...., about a rebellion in a fusty boys’ boarding school, really struck a chord. Released at a time of political turmoil, it

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