Stalky & Co (1982)

Three loyal friends confound the Establishment at a British public school

Stalky & Co. is a faithful adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's book of the same name (less one chapter and the afterstory chapter). Kipling was telling tales based on his own public school experiences as a boy (he is 'Beetle' in the book), and he did an excellent job of capturing the tenor of life in 'the Coll,' a school that catered to boys who would go on to govern and defend the British Empire in the Civil Service, Foreign Service and the military.

Created by

Alexander Baron

Themesbased on novel or bookboys' boarding schoolcoming of age