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Diving through a glass window


When a delinquent student tries to sexually assault a female teacher , Dadier takes him on , and the boy dives through a glass window to escape Dadier , getting injured in the process.
He falls down moaning but strangely we see no blood
If the scene had been played today it would have been more graphic with blood everywhere.

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in the dvd version, blood on the delinquent student appears as the police take him away. It was interesting because it appears to be put in.

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In the version I saw recently on the TCM channel, the student's face was actually quite bloodied up.

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yes, i thought that was one of the best scenes in the movies, and because the movie was made in the fifties, i was kind of surprised at just how bloody the students face was.

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The next day or whatever, when the kids are discussing the incident, one of them said that the kid needed three blood transfusions. Yes, we would have seen a lot more blood, although his face was pretty mangled.

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I think when we saw the different shots of kids talking about the incident, the point was to show how they exaggerated it, creating an even more hatefull atmosphere toward the teacher. So he probably didn't really need the blood transfusions.

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on tcm it was pretty bloody. Where did you see it that it wasn't bloody?

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I just saw it, and his face was covered in Hershey's syrup! That kid was one sloppy drinker!

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You're correct. They also made up stories that the teacher was a boxing champ, and used brass knuckles on the punk.

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