Rebel at St. Angela's

 

 

“Rebel at St. Angela’s” is a 17-and-a-half-minute movie released by Roue in early 1982.  It is one of five movies advertised in a movie list on pages 2 and 63 of Roue 22; the other four are Room 2D (more from St. Angela’s), The Tutor’s New Pupil, Video Verite and After Hours.  The movie is usually called Rebel at St. Angela’s but the title card on the version I have (which looks like a later addition) actually reads Rebels (plural) at St. Angela’s.  This movie is currently available on DVD through the Roue website at www.roue.com.  It is also currently available on XHamster.com at http://xhamster.com/videos/rebel-at-st-angela-s-xhFIvNS.

This movie has a cast of three; one man, the Headmaster, and two women who play the teacher Miss Padgett and a student named Jennifer.  Jennifer looks like Virginia, the field hockey captain from Four O’clock Report.  Miss Padgett is played by the same woman who plays Head Girl Gilly Norton in the Janus St. Winfred’s Trilogy.  The first issue of Encore Janus is devoted to the making of the St. Winifred’s trilogy and it describes the casting of Head Girl Norton saying that producer Peter Lucas …

“… first approached many of the models that had recently appeared in the pages of Janus.  A few months earlier he had met a young woman who had come into the Janus office with her husband.  She had wanted to appear in Janus dressed as a schoolgirl and she eventually did so on the front cover of Janus 12.   During the conversation that took place she disclosed that she actually had been a Head Girl at the highly prestigious Roedean boarding school.  Peter remembered this and created the role of ‘Head Girl Norton’ for her which she performed with distinction.”

In addition to the St. Winifred’s Trilogy and Rebel at St. Angela’s, which were both made in 1982, I have also seen suggestions that ‘Miss Padgett’ appears in Four O’clock Report.  I couldn’t find any evidence to support that until I recently saw her photos from Janus 12.  Those convinced me that she actually was Charlotte in Four O’clock Report (with a very different hairstyle).  

Finally, I also read a tweet from @whiteanklesock1 with a clip from this movie of the Headmaster spanking Jennifer that is captioned:

“Michael giving Suzie a spanking before his wife Gilly Norton, Miss Pagett, gives her the cane.”

I assume that means Michael and Suzie are the names of the actors playing the Headmaster and Jennifer respectively.  I can’t vouch for the accuracy of this information but I have no reason to doubt it either. 

The background to this movie is that a student named Jennifer has sent an unflattering letter to the school’s Board of Governor accusing Miss Padgett, a teacher at the school, of some kind of misconduct.  The movie opens with Jennifer waiting in room that has a notice entitled ‘Girls Awaiting Punishment’ posted on the wall.  Jennifer complies with the instructions by pulling up her skirt and pulling down her panties while she awaits Miss Padgett’s arrival.  While she stands waiting beside an old fashioned school desk with a cane on a stand next to it, she rubs her bottom and her mind flashes back to the bare bottom spanking she has already received from the School’s headmaster.  It is clearly intended to appear to be a lengthy spanking but it is seen in snippets totaling only about a minute and the camera work is disappointing.

Miss Padgett arrives about 3-1/2 minutes into the movie and, after a few lines of dialogue, Jennifer is over the desk.  She complains that she has already been spanked by the Headmaster but Miss Padgett is having none of it.  She says that there will be one stroke for every line of the letter and she estimates that there were about 40 lines in the very long letter.  The caning begins at about the 6-minute mark of the movie.  The strokes are firm to hard and they are delivered at a leisurely pace and she teases Jennifer with the cane throughout.  There is some conversation between the strokes but the dialogue is occasionally difficult to hear.

Toward the end of the caning Miss Padgett decides that Jennifer should write a 'nice, long letter' of apology to the Chairman of the School’s Board retracting her accusations and Jennifer agrees.  A final hard stroke of the cane seals the agreement (I might have liked to see a final flurry of a few quick strokes) and then Jennifer sits at the desk and begins to write the letter.  Miss Padgett warns Jennifer that the Board Chair will probably send her back for further punishment after they receive the retraction and the movie ends.

I like this movies and the caning scene with
Jennifer and Miss Padgett is one of the best I can recall.  The spanking scenes with the Headmaster are routine and they don’t add much to the movie.  The set is sparse and there are some flaws with the camera work, particularly during the spanking scenes.  There are minor sound issues throughout the movie but that may be a result of aging of the videotape.  The color is also slightly ‘off’ and, again, that may be a result of videotape aging.