Please Sir!

I attended comprehensive schools and the behaviour of pupils reflect the antics this film tries to portray. I thoroughly enjoyed this film it brought back many fond memories of another decade,

One of the early Tv spin offs of popular television sit coms and most certainly one of the best.

Set around Fenn st school mans it's hapless teacher Hedges and his colleagues and his class 5c made up of many lively characters.

The plot is around a school camp and some gypsies they meet as well as a sub plot involving a pupils scruffy abusive father .

The jokes and script are superb and everybody looks to be having a great time that adds so much to the film.

Not many other films of this type bettered this one.

Highly under-rated British comedy with many memorable characterisations, not a bad script, and a wonderful feel-good factor.

John Alderton is pretty much faultless as Hedges - this is fine comic acting.

Especially enjoyable if you grew up in the 1970s. Standout sequence for me is when Hedges (and we) think 5c have gone to bed for the night and he heads off to the pub with Price... only to bump into his pupils there. Nicely done.

Other amusing sequences also, and I can sum up the film using an expression of Dennis's (one of the characters)... "Yeah! Double NEAT!!"

In this spin off based on the popular TV sitcom, Mr Hedges (John Alderton) takes his troublesome class 5C to a holiday camp with inevitably comic and disastrous results. Despite the humour being a touch on the politically incorrect and racy side by modern standards, this is mainly a light hearted and good natured affair that never takes itself seriously at all. Featuring all the regular gang from the TV show (all the 'kids' look like they are in their twenties and thirties), and a few knowing nods to the pop culture of the day ('Hendrix Lives' written on a blackboard, alluding to the then recent death of Jimi Hendrix), the movie was one of the most popular at the British Box Office in 1972. Mike Vickers did the music, which features Cilla Black performing La La La Lu (I Love You).

As the film ' please Sir 1971', was In the stages of pre production the filmmakers and the writers of the television series which it was spawned from were becoming aware that the pupils of 5C were much older than the characters they were playing on screen all in their 20s and some were approaching 30s, the filmmakers deciding to give 5C a perfect sendoff in the form of a feature film.

After an appalling display of behaviour in a class assembly the teacher Bernard Hedges played by John Alderton finds out that because of their track record of being mischievous little tikes 5C haven't been allowed to go on the schools previous class trips. After some debilitating discussions amidst the staff and Bernard he manages to persuade them by the skin of their teeth to allow them to come along to a rural activity centre.

A formulaic plot structure involving sitcoms In the old days 1960s and 1970s was to take the characters on Holiday where a lot of carry on esque high Jinks would occur.

This film takes the characters into a new location, introduces a whole new load of people into the mix sprinkled with the odd carry on esque one liner and the result Is a wonderful comedy which never takes itself to seriously.

John Alderton is excellent again as the put upon teacher Hedges and the romance which develops between himself and a local woman named Penny is a nice change of scenery. His pupils are appealing in small doses it's a shame that most of them didn't make the transition from young actor to adult actor very well and didn't get as many opportunities to progress in their careers.

Malcolm McFee, Peter cleall, Peter Denyer, David Barry and Liz Gerhardt all turn in very watchable and engaging performances.

Overall: a very good sitcom film one of the better versions released during the screen to cinema movie boom.