You would think that Glenda Jackson, with her feisty image and at the height of her stardom, would have made a go of a drama set in a tough inner London school of the Seventies. But she seems curiously miscast in this earnest piece with dashes of comedy that fails to follow in the footsteps of previous school-set successes such as Blackboard Jungle and To Sir With Love. Oliver Reed makes the headmaster a music-hall buffoon and the story totters along, depicting all the usual social problems. One point of interest is an early appearance by Phil Daniels, as a gangly youth with an eye for the louche corners of school life. Daniels would star in Quadrophenia the following year.


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