Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?

Pidgeon – Hawk or Dove?

1974 · 75 min · Drama, TV Movie

Wallace Pidgeon, a schoolteacher, has a School Sports Day that goes drastically wrong and finds himself torn between the contradictory demands of his headmaster, his pupils, his young bride and her father.

Directed by David Rose · Written by Michael Sadler

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