EXTENDED Punishment Served Wholesale, 5 Boys For The Stroke Of One JIMMY EDWARDS, MITCH MITCHELL
FILM TRAILER It is very much Bottoms Up in this short, heavily edited video showing wholesale corporal punishment of recalcitrant boys by an enthusiastic headmaster bent on saving time. Older British viewers will probably recognise the man as Jimmy Edwards, a very wellknown comic actor from the 1950s onwards on radio, television and film, one of his most popular characters being the WhackO , canewielding headmaster of an English boarding school as portrayed here. Before embarking on a career in entertainment, Jimmy had been a World War Two RAF pilot and won the Distinguished Flying Cross (DFC), which is a great testament to the real person behind the humour. And the boy who turns and protests, Wendover (John Mitchell aka Mitch Mitchell), became the original drummer in the Jimi Hendrix Experience. As Jimmy Edwards famously played the trombone, did the two ever jam, one wonders Very unlikely It is only fair to mention
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