Heaven Help Us

Watching this movie takes me back to my own experiences in a Catholic elementary school during the 1960's. My school was coed but the nuns were just as bad as the priests. One priest I recall making boys crawl around the auditorium on their hands and knees, or stand for prolonged periods with their noses pressed against a wall. Humiliation was a favorite tactic,also. Whoever wrote the screenplay knew the rituals very well- the opening sequence was exactly what we did every Friday afternoon. I loved the clicker trick- wish one of our kids had done that! When the whole school explodes into applause as Dunn decks Brother Clarence, it feels like victory. The soundtrack is wonderful...good ol' 60's R and B!