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...ries was Searle's most famous work and inspired a popular series of comedy films. ...nd spent the rest of the war as a prisoner of the Japanese. After the war, in 1946 Searle started making new cartoons about the girls, but the content wa

| studio = [[London Films]]<br>Individual Pictures | distributor = [[British Lion Films]] {{small|(UK)}}

| gross = $2.3 million <small>(rentals)</small><ref>"Big Rental Films of 1969", ''[[Variety (magazine)|Variety]]'', 7 January 1970 p 15</ref> ...film follows a group of pupils who stage a savage insurrection at a boys' boarding school. The film was the subject of controversy at the time of its release,

| caption = Johns in ''[[The Halfway House]]'' (1944) ...sh stage, film and television character actor who became a star of British films during the Second World War.