Child's Play

About Child's Play

At an exclusive boys' school, a new gym teacher is drawn into a feud between two older instructors, and he discovers that everything at the school is not quite as staid, tranquil and harmless as it seems.

Sidney Lumet's Child's Play is a 1972 mystery thriller film. Its themes are boarding school, school teacher, and boys' school.

James Mason appears as Jerome Malley, Robert Preston as Joseph Dobbs, Beau Bridges as Paul Reis, and Ron Weyand as Father Mozian. It runs 100 minutes and was released in December 1972.

The screenplay is by Leon Prochnik.

Zero for Conduct make useful companions to Child's Play. TMDB voters put it at 6.1 out of 10 across 56 votes and it carries a PG rating.