Child's Play
★ 6.1 · 1972 · 100m · Drama · Mystery · Thriller
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.
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