Child's Play(1972)

Poster of Child's Play

Synopsis

There is an outbreak of violent behavior at the exclusive Catholic boarding school for boys, where Joe Dobbs is a popular English instructor and Jerome Malley is a widely-disliked Latin and Greek teacher. When Malley begins to receive threatening notes and phone calls, he assumes that Dobbs is the culprit. Paul Reis is hired as the new PE teacher and comes to believe that the violence and disharmony at the school may be caused by demonic possession.
There is an outbreak of violent behavior at the exclusive Catholic boarding school for boys, where Joe Dobbs is a popular English instructor and Jerome Malley is a widely-disliked Latin and Greek teacher. When …
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In Theaters

  • January 1, 1972

MPAA Rating

PG

Genres

Adaptation, Drama

Run Time

1 hour 40 minutes

Distributors

Paramount Pictures

Director

Sidney Lumet

Director

CAST

James Mason

Jerome Malley

Robert Preston

Joseph Dobbs

Beau Bridges

Paul Reis

Ronald Weyand

Father Mozian

Charles White

Father Griffin

David Rounds

Father Penny