Four O'clock Report

 

“Four O’clock Report” is a 14-minute movie released by Roue in early 1982.  The release was announced in Roue 21 with two-page spread on pages 60 & 61.  It was original released on two videotapes, at a price of 45 pounds each or 70 pounds for the pair, and Roue movies were sold to members through the RAM Bookstore in London or by mail.  This movie is currently available on DVD through the Roue website at www.roue.com.

The two pictures shown in the announcement don't come from the movie but they are pictures of one of the women in the movie.  The text printed in yellow on the second page of the release announcement reads:

Four O’clock report is an enticing video playlet packed in two parts, each complete in itself, and the two tapes together form a unique insight into the disciplinary system employed at Roue’s fictional St. Angela’s School.

There will be further twin tapes in the St. Angela’s series.  Don’t miss the chance to collect them all!!!

Stories set at St. Angela’s School appeared in a number of issues of Roue.  Four O’clock Report was the first of several movies that were set at St. Angela’s School but Room 2D and First Week of Term, Parts 1&2 were released soon afterward.

The movie has a cast of 5.  One man who I recognize, but I don’t know his name, plays the headmaster and four women, none of whom I recognize, play students at St. Angela’s School.  

UPDATE:  I've been researching my next post and I'm starting to believe that Charlotte is played by Head Girl Gilly Norton from the Janus St. Winifred's Trilogy movies, more about that soon.

 The movie opens with three women dressed in school uniforms discussing whether the headmaster will be in a good mood or a bad mood.  They are soon joined by a fourth student who isn’t in uniform.  The sound isn’t clear so it is sometimes difficult to understand what they are saying.  After about a minute-and-a-half, the door opens and the Headmaster calls Charlotte (siting on the table) into his office.  Inside he gets right to the point.  He lifts her skirt, pulls down her panties and picks up one of his slippers.  The girls outside the office hear her whimpering while the Headmaster give her a vigorous slippering.  At the end of her punishment he makes Charlotte stand bare-bottom so he can admire his handiwork.  He tells her to send in the new girl as she leaves.  The scene with Charlotte lasts about 3-1/2 minutes.

The new girl is Linda (dark hair in a school uniform) and it is her first day at the school.  There is a brief discussion during which the Headmaster makes it clear that it really doesn’t matter what she has, or hasn’t done, it will be the cane for her on her first day regardless.  He has her bend over his desk, skirt up and panties down, and he gives her a quick hard caning.  There is an awkward edit so her departure is very abrupt but, once again he has her send in the next girl as she leaves.

The blonde Virginia is next.  She obviously knows the drill because she starts to remove her skirt as soon as she enters the office.  She is captain of the school field hockey team and her punishment is the result of a lopsided defeat in their most recent game.  She bends over the chair for a nasty caning.  It is delivered on an angle from above so that the end of the cane strikes her thighs rather than her buttocks.  After the caning the Headmaster also has her stand so he can examine the results of his work.  She is also told to send in the next girl as she leaves but time is getting short and the movie ends just as the last girl goes into the office.

So, what happened to the last girl’s punishment?  This movie is available on DVD on the Roue website but all five of the pictures on the DVD liner (as shown at the top) are from the parts of the movie that I have seen. I know this movie was originally released in two parts.  Clips4Sale currently offers two movies that are called ‘Four O’clock Report, Part 1’ and ‘Four O’clock Report, Part 2’ (7 minutes and 8 minutes respectively) but the description and vidcaps make it clear that these are included in the 14-minute movie that I have.  None of the reviews of this movie that I have been able to find contain any description of the fourth girl’s punishment and I haven’t seen any vidcaps from that punishment anywhere.  I have come to believe that the last girl’s punishment was either never filmed or not released for some reason.  I would love to hear from anyone who knows anything more about this missing sequence.

This movie is not as good as many of the other earlier Roue movies and it lacks many of the touches that are common the Roue and Blushes movies that were directed by Roue editor Alan Bell.  Neither does he appear in the movie as he often does and this make me think that it may have been directed by someone else.  Furthermore, time has not been kind to the original videotape, both the picture and sound have lost their sharpness and there is a lot of noise in both.  The movie is worth seeing if you are interested in the history of the Roue movies but otherwise it is something of a disappointment.