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The Flying Classroom

The Flying Classroom

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1973
1h 28m
7.1(34 votes)
Comedy

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A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.

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