Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes.

Today’s theme: Physical media

John Ebony (David Hemmings, who also produced this) is an idealistic young teacher who arrives at Chantrey School for Boys to fill the shoes of the recently fallen-off a-cliff Pellham. Yet this somewhat of a dream job is anything but, as he lives on the school’s grounds with his wife Sylvia (Carolyn Seymour), who feels trapped. She struggles to fit in with the older wives who have been there for decades, just as John is challenged by the juvenile delinquents he must somehow teach.

Directed by John Mackenzie and written by Simon Raven and based on a radio play by Giles Cooper, this movie gets dark when the boys in his class tell John that they killed the last teacher and they’ll do the same if he doesn’t do exactly what they say. No one believes him, not even his wife.

She makes the mistake of thinking that she can connect with the boys much more than she can with the much older teachers and their wives, even sharing a cigarette with her. Yet she’s defiant in the face of them threatening her with gang rape, which luckily is stopped at the last moment.

I’d never seen this movie, but it really gets across the way that British schools can lead to a legacy of brutal men who do the same thing in real life that they did in class. Seymour is also incredible in this. I’d never seen her in a movie before and now I’m seeking out other roles that she performed in.

The Arrow blu ray release of Unman, Wittering and Zigo contains a new audio commentary by Sean Hogan and Kim Newman; an appreciation by Matthew Sweet; a featurette with several of the cast members looking back at the movie; an original 1958 recording of Giles Cooper’s radio play; a trailer; an image gallery; a double sided fold-out poster featuring original and newly commissioned artwork by Eric Adrian Lee, which also appears as a reversible sleeve and book with writing by Kevin Lyons and Oliver Wake. You can get it from MVD.