Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)

Directed by

John Mackenzie

Genre

action film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

PG

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A new teacher arrives at a remote boarding school and discovers that his predecessor died in an apparent accident. The students in his class may have been responsible for the death and they threaten him with the same fate.

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What happens

Unman, Wittering and Zigo is a 1971 British thriller film directed by John Mackenzie and starring David Hemmings, Douglas Wilmer and Carolyn Seymour. It was adapted by Simon Raven from Giles Cooper's 1958 BBC Radio 3 radio drama Unman, Wittering and Zigo. The movie's title was parodied in Little Britain (Series 1 Episode 6, 2003), and by a Rowan Atkinson sketch in the 1979 Secret Policeman's Ball concert for Amnesty International. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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