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Why this pick
Its close-quarters psychological warfare and steadily shifting dominance echo the poisonous, performative cruelty of Jocko's control over other cadets.
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MOVIE1957 1h 40m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Jocko De Paris, cadet leader in a Southern military academy, so manipulates events that George Avery, Jr., son of the school's executive officer, is found drunk and expelled. Through various pressures, Jocko silences such involuntary accomplices as his roommate Harold Koble, football star Roger Gatt and freshmen Robert Marquales and Maynard Simmons, a girl-fearing cadet whom Jocko terrorizes into dating Rosebud, a town girl.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Ben Gazzara
Jocko De Paris
Pat Hingle
Harold Koble
Peter Mark Richman
Cadet Colonel Corger (as Mark Richman)
Arthur Storch
Simmons
Paul E. Richards
Perrin McKee
Larry Gates
Major Avery
Clifton James
Colonel Ramey
Geoffrey Horne
George Avery