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* UncreditedRole: Creator/TommyGodfrey as a school porter.
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* ActorInspiredElement: Mick and the Girl rolling on the café floor naked and making love was Creator/MalcolmMcDowell's idea (because he wanted to see his attractive co-star, Christine Noonan, for whom he admitted having a crush, in the nude.) However, when Lindsay Anderson accepted the star's suggestion, the director required [=McDowell=] to ask Noonan if she was willing to do so. (Her reply, according to [=McDowell=], was "I don't mind.")
* BannedInChina: The film is noted for its ''highly'' controversial content (both at the time of release in 1968 and even in the present), including romance between male pupils, nudity, feral sex-scenes and pupils gunning down their classmates, parents and staff in the surreal finale -- the film was X-rated upon its UK release.
* DarkhorseCasting: Prior to this, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell had small roles on the stage. His only prior film role was in Creator/KenLoach's ''Poor Cow'', where he ended up on the cutting room floor.
* DawsonCasting: Played straight with the older pupils, who were mostly in their early to mid-20's at the time of shooting, but the younger First Years (the "Scum") all look to be of the correct age (11-12 years old) for starting secondary school.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.
* StillbornFranchise: At the time of Anderson's death he had completed a final draft of a proper sequel to the film, but it was never made. The sequel takes place during a Founders' Day celebration where many of the characters reunite. Mick Travis is now an Oscar-nominated movie star, eschewing England for Hollywood. Wallace is a military major who has lost his arm. Johnny is a clergyman. Rowntree is the Minister of War. In the script Rowntree is kidnapped by a group of anti-war students and saved by Mick and his gang, though not before Mick crucifies Rowntree with a large nail through his palm.
* ThrowItIn: The scene of the beating in the gym was completely ad-libbed.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/NicholasRay was asked to direct. He liked the script, but he suffered a nervous breakdown before anything could come of it.
* WorkingTitle: ''Crusaders''
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* BannedInChina: The film is noted for its ''highly'' controversial content (both at the time of release in 1968 and even in the present), including romance between male pupils, nudity, feral sex-scenes and pupils gunning down their classmates, parents and staff in the surreal finale -- the film was X-rated upon its UK release.
* DarkhorseCasting: Prior to this, Creator/MalcolmMcDowell had small roles on the stage. His only prior film role was in Creator/KenLoach's ''Poor Cow'', where he ended up on the cutting room floor.
* DawsonCasting: Played straight with the older pupils, who were mostly in their early to mid-20's at the time of shooting, but the younger First Years (the "Scum") all look to be of the correct age (11-12 years old) for starting secondary school.
* StarMakingRole: For Creator/MalcolmMcDowell.
* StillbornFranchise: At the time of Anderson's death he had completed a final draft of a proper sequel to the film, but it was never made. The sequel takes place during a Founders' Day celebration where many of the characters reunite. Mick Travis is now an Oscar-nominated movie star, eschewing England for Hollywood. Wallace is a military major who has lost his arm. Johnny is a clergyman. Rowntree is the Minister of War. In the script Rowntree is kidnapped by a group of anti-war students and saved by Mick and his gang, though not before Mick crucifies Rowntree with a large nail through his palm.
* ThrowItIn: The scene of the beating in the gym was completely ad-libbed.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Creator/NicholasRay was asked to direct. He liked the script, but he suffered a nervous breakdown before anything could come of it.
* WorkingTitle: ''Crusaders''
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