The Class of Miss MacMichael is a 1978 British comedy drama film directed by Silvio Narizzano, and starring Glenda Jackson, Oliver Reed, and Michael Murphy.

[2] The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A curious throwback to the days of The Blackboard Jungle and, closer to home, To Sir with Love, which fails to make much of a case, in its earnest liberal fashion, for the way society shapes its juvenile delinquents.

Reformist in inspiration, inappropriate in interpretation (Oliver Reed plays Sutton the headmaster as though he were a music-hall character), and inexplicable in casting (it is the most unlikely vehicle yet for Glenda Jackson), the film simply limps from one clumsy exhibition of delinquency to the next.

It does, however, give work to a fair number of young black actors, which is not an everyday occurrence, and one performance in particular stands out: Phil Daniels as the lanky adolescent with the prurient eye whom Miss MacMichael designates to give the functionaries of the school board an eye-opening tour of the premises' seedier nooks and crannied.

Add to this conflict in styles the film's confused intentions – black comedy, the horrific realities of reform schools, a sentimental belief that understanding will overcome – and you have a mess.