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...Prometheus this time is a sensitive and dedicated teacher, Graham Weir (Oliver). His woes include a nagging wife, (Simone Signoret), a prison record for conscientious objection to World War Two, and a classroom full of monsters and hoodlums. One pleasant fellow in particular, Mitchell(Terence Stamp), has teacher assaulted by thugs when he feels slighted. Long suffering Weir refuses to "bash the little beggars," as more practical colleagues suggest; his code of sensitivity and non-violence is at length rewarded when two pupils show genuine signs of intellectual curiosity...
...their family background. Young Thompson's mother is taking on with a lodger, and in destroying the lover's symbol of superiority, his car, the lad is badly burned. Fifteen-year-old Shirley (Sarah Miles) has been starved of love by her family; she lets a gentleness on Weir's part toward her desires to learn kindle a puerile passion for him. The passion must be dashed, and the result is an unpleasant trial of the teacher for indecent assault. Acquittal does not save Prometheus's reputation, and Weir is forced to destroy one principle, truth, to save even...
...investigated every low aspect of life. A good fourth of the film is spent in tracing foot motions through bars, murky corridors, sleezy alleys. Even symbolism raises its heavy head: a train rushes by into the night as the prelude to the crisis scene between Shirley and Weir in his bedroom. The dialogue is so prosaic that it is often funny; a tense verbal duel in bed between Olivier and Signoret got more laughs than the presumably witty "Arabic" interchange in Manchurian Candidate...
...Crimson penalties and Bulldog hustle led to four more Eli goals in the third period, putting the game out of Harvard's reach. Coach Munro substituted goalle Jim Weir for Leaf in an effort to stop the Yalle scoring parade, but the margin of victory grew steadily...
...Crimson defensemen completely boxed in the Tufts attack on those rare occasions when the ball did get into the Crimson half of the field. The Jumbos sent only seven shots at the cage all afternoon, Jim Weir made two saves in the first half and Gil Leaf had three more stops in the second 30 minutes...