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The Lords of Discipline (1983)

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Overview

Director:
Franc Roddam
Writers:
Pat Conroy (novel)
Thomas Pope (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
7 October 1983 (Norway) more view trailer
Genre:
Thriller more
Tagline:
One hundred years of the finest school turning out the finest young men. IT WAS ALL A LIE. One cadet is about to expose the system.
Plot:
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student... more | add synopsis
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Moral more

Cast

 (Cast overview, first billed only)

David Keith ... Will
Robert Prosky ... Bear
G.D. Spradlin ... General Bentley Durrell
Barbara Babcock ... Abigail

Michael Biehn ... John Alexander
Rick Rossovich ... Dante `Pig` Pignetti
John Lavachielli ... Mark

Mitchell Lichtenstein ... Tradd
Mark Breland ... Pearce

Malcolm Danare ... Poteete

Judge Reinhold ... Macabbee
Greg Webb ... Braselton

Bill Paxton ... Gilbreath (as 'Wild' Bill Paxton)
Dean R. Miller ... Gooch (as Dean Miller)
Ed Bishop ... Commerce
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Additional Details

Runtime:
102 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
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Trivia:
Filmed in London, Bill Paxton met his future (and second) wife Louise Newbury on a number 37 bus. more
Quotes:
Gilbreath: Do you know what this is, boy?
[Holds up a coin]
Gilbreath: Pop off!
Poteete: It's a quarter, sir.
Gilbreath: Shut up! Open your mouth and stick out your tongue.
[Poteete sticks out his tongue and Gilbreath places the coin on it]
Gilbreath: Swallow it!
[Gilbreath grabs Poteete's throatt, forcing him to swallow the coin]
Gilbreath: That's good boy, that's reeeal good. You're gonna be my little piggy-bank.
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Moral, 23 January 2005
Author: (caspian1978@hotmail.com) from Attleboro, MA

A movie about discipline, the Lords of Discipline is the wrong title to what could have been a great movie. David Keith stars in a Taps like movie where a coming of age drama turns into a thriller. Some interesting characters, that end up not going anywhere, the movie has a plot but no real story that drives the audience to keep watching. Issues of race and equality take a back seat to the overall story of discipline. Military schools are looked upon as either a wrong idea run by the wrong people, or the only real justice left. These questions are not answered as David Keith tries to lead his cast. Instead, a nice movie, but far from anything great. Much like David Keith's performance, the movie falls short of anything timeless.

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