The Secret Pact (1979, Canada)

A boy is present when his parents are murdered by the mafia, and as part of an elaborate witness protection programme, he is given a new identity and sent to a top fee-paying school. The mafia wish to eliminate him, so they send a boy with a false identity to the school to flush out our hero. An entirely unbelievable scenario, and the poor script doesn't do anything to improve matters.

As part of the story, there is a complicated initiation ordeal, where three of the younger boys are kidnapped by older boys; they have to get into the swimming baths where an adjacent girls' school has swimming lessons, and photograph them. A small brown paper bag is handed over, which apparently contains three sets of clothes and three wigs.

The main character, Spence, was 23 when the film was released, and he plays a supposedly younger boy. A shave before that scene was shot would have been a good idea.

HF February 2008

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