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11 November 1986 (USA)
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He Risked It All To Make The Grade
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Denzil Washington last t.v. movie before "Cry Freedom" Oscar nominated performance
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(in credits order) | Denzel Washington | ... | George McKenna |
 | Lynn Whitfield | ... | Bobbie Maxwell |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
 | Debra Artis | ... | Wilma |
| Edna Auguillard | ||
| Billy Jaye Banner | ||
 | Earl Billings | ... | Mr. Rogers |
| James Bowman | ||
| Ray Buktenica | ... | Alan Keith |
 | Akosua Busia | ... | Cynthia Byers |
| Alexander Byrd | ||
| Virginia Capers | ... | Margaret Wright |
 | Gregg Dandridge | ||
| Kim Davis | ||
 | Travis Davis | ... | Howard Smith |
 | Blue Deckert | ||
| Greg Wayne Elam | ||
| Kirk E. Elam | ||
 | Terrance Ellis | ... | Robert Norris |
| Johnny Fisher | ||
| Theresa Flores | ||
| Michael Forney | ||
| Billy Green | ||
 | Irma P. Hall | ||
| Shannon Harold | ||
| Pete Harrada | ||
| Bill Henderson | ... | Goodman |
| Bridgette Hill | ||
| Travis Howard | ||
| Ron Jackson | ||
 | Brent Jennings | ... | Mr. Jackson |
| Jermaine Johnson | ||
| Israel Juarbe | ... | Miguel |
| Lawrence King | ||
| Fannie Belle Lebby | ||
 | Richard Masur | ... | Ben Proctor |
| Michael Matthews | ... | E.J. |
| Bill Milburn | ||
| Michael Milburn | ||
| Gary Moody | ... | Delroy |
| Jim Ponds | ||
 | J.A. Preston | ... | Mr. McKenna |
 | Ken Sagoes | ... | Mark Rogers |
| Elaine Taylor | ||
| Barbara Townsend | ... | Aura Kruger |
| Royce Wallace | ||
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| Eric Laneuville | |||
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| Charles Eric Johnson | ||
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| Linda Otto | .... | producer | |
| Jerram A. Swartz | .... | associate producer | |
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| Herbie Hancock | |||
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| Isidore Mankofsky | |||
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| Robin Wilson | |||
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| Jeffrey L. Goldstein | |||
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| Rona Lamont | |||
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| F.A. Miller | .... | production manager | |
Sound Department | |||
| Craig Busch | .... | cable man | |
| Mark Friedgen | .... | supervising sound editor | |
Costume and Wardrobe Department | |||
| Fran Allgood | .... | set costumer | |
Other crew | |||
| Anne Carr | .... | production assistant | |
| Anne Carr | .... | set medic | |
| Blaine G. Houserman | .... | assistant production accountant | |
| Laura Petticord | .... | production assistant | |
| Dorothy Sidwell | .... | production coordinator | |
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- Barnholtz Entertainment (2002) (USA) (DVD)
- Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) (1986) (USA) (TV) (original airing)
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"Hard Lessons" - USA (video title)
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The George McKenna Story, is a 1986 CBS fact based made for t.v. movie, that starred Denzil Washington as the title role of George McKenna. Washington plays a school principal in a tough inner city Los Angeles high school out to rid it of drugs, gangs, low moral of teachers, and restore educational values. Nothing is new in this film that has not been seen before in films like The Blackboard Jungle(1955), and later in films like The Principal (1987), Lean On Me (1988), and Dangerous Minds (1994).
This movie was Denzil Washington's last television movie before he scored big a year later with the film "Cry Freedom". The George McKenna story also starred fine stage and screen actress Lynn Whitfield, who also was in another satisfying CBS fact based movie, Johnnie Mae Gibson, F.B.I. Though the movie is clichéd at times, the producers was intelligent to cast superior actors. The George McKenna Story, without Denzil Washington would have been a typical after school special with melodramatic violence. I gave this movie *** good, but nothing exceptionally special here. Check it out, it is on video.