The School Lesson

The third film released in the Lesson series by Harrison Marks

Reviewed by John Donnelly — ‘Another classic from the Harrison Marks/Lukas team.’

Well it seems like only a matter of weeks since I was sitting here — pen poised, reviewing the last Janus film The Gym Lesson. In fact it is actually several months ago and since then our negotiators have been busying themselves finalising arrangements for this latest masterpiece — The School Lesson — and again it’s an absolute classic.

Guided by the enormous and enthusiastic response to our earlier two films we asked again for a script based around a schoolgirl theme and sure enough that’s what they’ve come up with. The film opens as our two super looking girls (as you can see from the colour stills) approach their headmaster’s study door in order to hand in some extra work which they have been set. Having handed it in they are sent through to the Head’s drawing-room whilst he marks their work.

The two girls file through into the drawing-room and having spent some time waiting, become bored. This boredom transpires to be the beginning of the slippery road which leads our two young heroines to their ultimate fate, for Lucy (the blonde), feeling in her blazer pocket, finds a couple of pictures which she has apparently cut out of a naughty magazine ‘for girls only’!

She shows one of the pictures to her friend Sarah, and then suddenly the film begins to take off as Lucy’s lesbian tendencies are sparked off by the sight of the pictures, and she makes amorous advances towards her friend. As our two little ladies give one another lessons that their headmaster would certainly not approve of, he is marking their exercise books — and as he works through Lucy’s book he finds that she has inadvertently left some more of her wicked pictures in the back. Oh dear — it looks as though trouble’s brewing!

The headmaster leaps to his feet and storming to the drawing-room bursts through the door to find Lucy and Sarah in the middle of their extra lesson — with yet more naughty pictures. He is now visibly absolutely infuriated, and staring at the girls with an explosive looking face he rants and raves at them until they become as terrified as he is furious.

The scene then calms slightly as the headmaster, picking up a handful of swishy canes, places them all on his table and begins to test each one individually, bending them between his hands and swishing them through the air. The girls now realise that there is no release for them, but continue to beg and plead for his mercy. Unmoved, the Head — having selected the bendiest of all his canes — orders Sarah to come forward to the desk.

Reluctantly she does so and, upon receiving further instructions, bends over to take her medicine. The hem of her gymslip — or what there is of it — is raised and tucked into the waistband, thus revealing her typical navy blue gym knickers. But also for Sarah, and luckily for you, these are to afford no protection to our little heroine — the Head has decided that down they must come — and down they come — revealing a super bottom — as yet unblemished, which she is then told to push out as far as she can.

Satisfied with his recalcitrant pupil’s position, our hero then raises his cane and brings it down for the first of a considerable number of mighty strokes — his cane certainly moves at the same speed as others that we’ve seen — and probably faster!

Having finished with Sarah, the Head’s attention now turns to her pretty friend — Lucy, who is even more terrified than before, having witnessed her friend’s punishment, takes up the same position as her friend to take her caning. As the camera moves onto her face we can see that Lucy’s reaction is considerably less dignified than her friend’s, and as the cane rains down her face is a veritable picture of pain, and so closes another absolutely excellent film which could never have been made but for the enormous support of you, our readers.

Two points which I would like to make before closing are that as from early September all three of the Harrison Marks/Lukas spectaculars will normally be on view in the private film booths at the Janus Bookshop, 4 Greens Court, London, W.1, for those of you who have not yet seen them of course; The Riding Lesson and The Gym Lesson are available for immediate purchase from there. The School Lesson will be available from early September.

Secondly we are also pleased to announce another first ever — The Riding Lesson, The Gym Lesson and The School Lesson are now available together as a threesome on video tape at a price of £75.00 [equivalent to around £400 nowadays for c. 20 mins of footage!] — for any type of format normally available on the UK Market. Please use the form at the bottom of this review to order either your 8mm copy or your videotape. (Please specify exactly which type of tape you require to avoid confusion.)

P.S. We are only too pleased to hear from readers with comments or criticisms about our films, or if there are any budding script writers out there, please drop us a line.

Review from spankingfilmreview.com:

M/2f; late 1970’s; 6 minutes

Naughty schoolgirls, one of the earliest CP films we have found, one of George Harrison Marks’ Lesson films, when he was still a ‘glamour’ photographer, doing series for Janus and beginning his own magazine and when a naughty bare (schoolgirl) bottom on film had salacious attraction. Despite the cinematographic facilities in the bigger movie industry, these early ‘smoker’ films looked like Thomas Edison stuff.

Two randy schoolgirls deliver papers to a headmaster and wait outside his office. In no time (because there isn’t any time in this film), they are masturbating to photos of naked men, and have each other’s’ clothes coming off for some aggressive lesbian play. Of course the Head catches them. They will be caned.

The girls, both with the round spankable bottoms which must have been part of their audition for GHM, are taken over the HM’s desk in turn. Knickers down immediately, he wales them with a long, thin, whippy cane, which leaves many marks in just a few seconds, mostly on wrap-around areas. The headmaster is grinning and salivating like a crazed man.