This page lists movies, books, and television programs with scenes depicting spanking/corporal punishment (CP). Descriptions of the action and background are included whenever possible. All reference material that is available is included with the review. Please don't ask Bobby for more details on how to acquire copies of these items, since there is no more information available, at least from Bobby. (And no, Bobby cannot provide copies of anything mentioned herein.) These do not represent all the references that Bobby owns. More will be added as Bobby gets time to write them up.

All reviews include a rating based on how much Bobby likes the scene in question. The scores range from 1 to 6 strokes:

6 of the best - A must have for any true spankophile who appreciates the type of scene being described.
5 strokes - Worth going to some effort to acquire.
4 strokes - Good. Get it if you can.
3 strokes - Not bad, but nothing to write home about.
2 strokes - Try it, but only if you're really bored.
1 strokes - Pathetic. Don't even bother.

A House In The Country by Jose Donoso
(1984 - Alfred Knopf) CT Rating: 4 strokes
An interesting novel by a renown Chilean author. The Ventura family has gone on a trip, leaving the children (a large number of sons, daughters, and cousins) in the care of the servants. Servants who don't hesitate to beat the children mercilessly, but without leaving any marks to show their parents. Also features a teasing sequence which culminates in a pants down OTK spanking for nine-year-old Wenceslao, the youngest Ventura lad. This is a revolutionary novel, which also features the brutal murders of several members of the wealthy Ventura family - not for the squeamish. (Bobby bought his hardcover copy for $1 from a public library clearance.)

Knock On Any Door by Willard Motley
(1989 - Northern Illinois University Press) CT Rating: 4 strokes
Reprint of the 1947 novel. Witness the hero, Nicky Romano, as he falls from grace. Nicky goes from being an altar boy to being a delinquent, and ends up on trial for murder. Nicky gets punished several times by his father and in reform school. The most intense scene is the severe, public, pants-down paddling of several young runaways after their return to the reform school. (This book is still in print. It is available from sources like Bookstacks Unlimited.)

Mutiny by Frank Tilsley
(1958 - Reynal & Co.) CT Rating: 6 of the best
This is the novel on which the wonderful motion picture Damn The Defiant! is based. The book is more intense than the movie, painting the senior midshipman henchman as a thoroughly wicked fellow, who applies the theory not of "inflicting the maximum pain with the minimum effort" to his young charges, but simply "the maximum pain." The book was only published in hardcover, but may still be acquired if you happen to get lucky at a used book store. Bobby did, but it cost him $25.)

Old Mali and the Boy by D.R. Sherman
(1964 - Little, Brown) CT Rating: 6 strokes
Our hero (known only as "the boy" throughout the novel) is the only day scholar at a boy's boarding school in India, and the son of one of the teachers. He and two of his friends are caught stealing maize from a neighboring field and end up in the dormitory the next morning, each standing beside a bed and waiting for the headmaster to arrive with the cane. Our hero is last in line, so we experience his clear-headed but frightened reaction to the agonies of his friends before he has to take off his pants and lay face down on the bed to take 13 sizzling strokes of the cane. Will our hero cry out for his mommy like one of his friends did?. (Bobby found his hardcover copy in a used book store. Price $3.)

The Power Of One by Bryce Courtenay
(1989 - Ballantine) CT Rating: 3 strokes
This one was made into a so-so movie. The film omitted a couple of bent-over-the-bed-in-the-dorm caning scenes early in the story. They're at least worth looking at while browsing in a bookstore. The scenes are on pages 26-28 in my paperback copy.

Run With The Horsemen by Ferrol Sams
(1982 - Peachtree) CT Rating: 5 strokes
This apparently autobiographical novel features Porter Osborne, Jr., a boy growing up on a Georgia farm between the World Wars. The huge farmhouse was frequently stuffed to the rafters with odd relatives worthy of a Mark Twain novel, or even a Shakespeare play. Peter was not a bad boy per se. Nonetheless, many of the adults in the boy's life found reason to give him painful lessons in discipline. His backside quickly became familiar with the application of the hairbrush, various switches (including the dreaded peach switch), straps, paddles, and angry adult hands. Porter thinks about the psychological aspects of discipline often throughout the book. The highlight is Porter's final thrashing by his mother, just before his fourteenth birthday, when she wears out three peach switches on his bare buttocks, thighs, and calves for lying. (Hardcover, in print.)

The Thresher by Herbert Krause
(1946 - Bobbs Merrill) CT Rating: 4 strokes
The hero of this novel is Johnny Schwartz, a German-American boy growing up among the wheat farmers of western Minnesota. The farmers and their brides are tough and religious, not the kind of people to brook much "foolishness" from their offspring. The other dominant figure in the lives of the children is the Pastor, the local Hell-and-Damnation preacher who doubles as school teacher for the community. The best individual scene finds our hero watching the action as another boy writhes over the bench in front of the class while the Pastor treats him to a liberal dose of the birch stick. The description of the whipping is delightful, but the best part (or worst, depending on your outlook) is that the whipping is for something that yet another boy (not the hero) did. Everyone in the class knows who did it, but not a single girl or boy (not even the unlucky sacrificial lad) says a word of protest. Even without the fine CP aspects, this is a good novel. (Bobby found his hardcover copy in a used book store. Price $1.)

(These flicks would be considered mainstream and non-pornographic in most of the world. Some of the European films may cause seizures in the censors of the U.S. and Canada.)

Bless The Beasts And The Children
(circa 1972 - USA) CT Rating: 4 strokes
Six misfit teen boys (ages 12-16) are consigned to spend the summer in a "wilderness camp" in the western U.S. Caught attempting to steal the "trophy" of another cabin in the middle of the night, our six anti-heroes are bent over a log and paddled by members of the top cabin - from whom they were stealing. One interesting highlight is that the victims of the paddling, their executioners, and all the witnesses are clad in the "official bedtime uniform" of the camp - a pair of white jockey shorts. (The video is sometimes available for rental at larger video stores.)

Damn The Defiant!
(circa 1970s - British) CT Rating: 6 of the best
The action takes place on H.M.S. Defiant, a British man-of-war, during the Napoleonic Wars. Captain Crawford (Sir Alec Guiness) is shouldered with fighting both the French and his first officer, a petty young lieutenant with friends in the Admiralty. The captain's foe is a sadistic specimen, ordering brutal whippings with the cat for trivial offences. Cool enough, eh? It gets even better when the captain gives his subordinate a public chewing out over his constant failure to carry out orders. Humiliated, the lieutenant decides to work out his anger on the hide of the captain's twelve-year-old son, who is making his first cruise as a midshipman. The captain has to stand by, helpless to interfere without risking a career-ending charge of favoritism, as the lieutenant's henchman treats his only son to a daily dose of the cane, heartily laid on as the lad "kisses the gunner's daughter." (The beatings are mostly heard rather than seen, but the first and last strokes of the initial caning are shown on screen. The video is available for rental, but hard to find. It also appears occasionally on the "late night movies" in various cities.) As luck would have it, this is also one of the better movies about the Royal Navy during this period of history. Just another reason it is one of Bobby's all time favorites. (See also the entry for Mutiny, the novel on which this movie is based.)

Farewell My Concubine
(1993 - Chinese) CT Rating: 5 strokes
Follows the training and careers of two stars of the all-male Beijing Opera in the early twentieth century. The young opera scholars suffer a strict training regime which includes baring their bottoms frequently for severe paddlings administered with the flat side of prop swords.

Kipperbang
(1982 - British) CT Rating: 4 strokes
Alan Duckworth, "Quack, Quack" to his friends, is a 14-year-old who spends 1948 daydreaming his way through the fourth form. Chronically late for class, and also for the detention he thereby earned, Duckworth ends up touching his toes in the headmaster's office. Robert Urquhart plays the classic English headmaster, who "does not believe in corporal punishment," but asks Duckworth "to regard what is about to happen purely as a deterrent." The odd thing about this scene is the nature of Duckworth's daydreams, which consist of radio cricket announcers making comments on the activities in the boy's real life. Their comments as Duckworth is caned are fairly hilarious.

Pelle The Conqueror
(1988 - Swedish) CT Rating: 5 strokes
Pelle and his widowed father (Max Von Sydow) are Swedish immigrants working on a farm in 19th century Denmark. Twelve-year-old Pelle has to put up with a lot of bullying because he is a foreigner. This culminates in a pants-down horse whipping in front of many witnesses. Pelle also gets caned on the hands in school and spanked by the farmer for stealing eggs.

The General
(1998 - Ireland) CT Rating: 6 of the best
This movie tells the true story of Martin Cahill - Irish thief, gangster, and folk hero. There is a scene about four minutes into the film where the police catch the young Martin stealing food for this family. The film then cuts immediately to the mass strapping of a group of boys in what appears to be a dorm room in a Catholic reformatory. At least 10 boys between the ages of 11-13 are bent over the foot of their beds, nightshirts rolled up above the waist, exposing their bare bottoms to the tender mercies of the implacable priest. Said gentleman strides down the row administering a solid whack of the strap to each pair of upturned white cheeks. Most of the boys vocalize their objections to this treatment with various grunts and "Owws". After the priest skips Martin, his apparent favorite, we are treated to a long shot of the room. Some of the boys still waiting their turn squirm nervously and/or brace themselves against the imminent blow from the strap. This film is available on DVD, which lets you view the black and white or color versions.

The Slingshot
(1993 - Swedish) CT Rating: 6 of the best
Stockholm of the 1920s is the home of twelve-year-old Roland "Rolle" Schutt. At home Rolle literally serves as a punching bag for his older brother, who is in training to be a boxer. Both boys are slapped quite hard by their father when they get out of line. Rolle is subjected to a lot of abuse at school because his mother is Jewish and his father is a socialist. Boys who misbehave in class are sent to stand in the hall. When the headmaster makes his rounds, each boy is required to describe the offense for which he was sent out, then receives a hard slap to the face. When Rolle is caught selling slingshots made out of condoms (which were illegal in Sweden at the time), his teacher treats him to a pants-down thrashing with a large ruler in the headmaster's office. Denied the use of the faculty lavatory after his whipping, the now-desperate lad fails to make it to the student outhouse before wetting his pants. The bloody stripes on Rolle's backside cause his father to skip the additional bare bottomed strapping he was about the administer at home. (Either the film makers are anti-CP propagandists, or the teacher is a genuine sadist who beats with the edge of the ruler. A ruler applied in the normal fashion could not produce the results indicated in this movie.)

Schoolboys in Disgrace by The Kinks
(1975 - Rhino Records) CT Rating: 6 of the best
Only the Kinks, whose biggest hit ("Lola") is about crossdressers, could have made this album, which has been startling CP enthusiasts in record stores since its release. The cartoon cover is incredible! A uniformed English schoolboy, tears in his eyes, bends over in the spotlight on stage, his short trousers down just far enough in back to reveal his freshly caned and smarting bum. In the background is the silhouette of the headmaster, cane in hand. Oh, yeah, there is some music on the CD located behind the cover. The music, typical of the Kinks, is good but not great. The song "Headmaster" is the confession of the guilty lad in the headmaster's study, and ends with the wretched boy's plea, "Headmaster, please spare me I beg you, don't make me take my trousers down." The implacable headmaster answers with "The Hard Way," the basic message of which is "I've got to be cruel to be kind."