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Patrick Boland | ... | First Tribunal Defendant |
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Kent Foreman | ... | Defendant in the tribunal |
| Carmen Argenziano | ... | Jay Kaufman, Tribunal Defendant | |
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Luke Johnson | ... | Defendant in the tribunal |
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Katherine Quittner | ... | Nancy Smith |
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Stan Armsted | ... | Charles Robbins |
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Mary Ellen Kleinhall | ... | Allison Mitchner |
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Mark Keats | ... | William C. Hoeger, Tribunal Chairman |
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Gladys Golden | ... | Mary Jurgens, Tribunal Member |
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Sanford Golden | ... | Sen. Harris |
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George Gregory | ... | Mr. Keagan |
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Norman Sinclair | ... | Alfred J. Sully - Tribunal Member |
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Sigmund Rich | ... | Prof. Hazlett |
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Paul Rosenstein | ... | Paul Reynolds - Tribunal Member |
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"Punishment Park" is a pseudo-documentary purporting to be a film crews's news coverage of the team of soldiers escorting a group of hippies, draft dodgers, and anti-establishment types across the desert in a type of capture the flag game. The soldiers vow not to interfere with the rebels' progress and merely shepherd them along to their destination. At that point, having obtained their goal, they will be released. The film crew's coverage is meant to insure that the military's intentions are honorable. As the representatives of the 60's counter-culture get nearer to passing this arbitrary test, the soldiers become increasingly hostile, attempting to force the hippies out of their pacifist behavior. A lot of this film appears improvised and in several scenes real tempers seem to flare as some of the "acting" got overaggressive. This is a interesting exercise in situational ethics. The cinéma vérité style, hand-held camera, and ambiguous demands of the director - would the actors be ... Written by Dick Rockwell <dr1orok@atlas.moa.net>
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December 1971 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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Many of the "actors" were not acting in a traditional sense. In the introduction, Peter Watkins says many protesters were real-life protesters, and most soldiers were real-life conservatives. All improvised lines based on their opinions. There were no rehearsals. See more »Goofs
At the end of the film, when the defendants of group 638 are listening their sentences and again when they are being asked if the prefer the Punishment Park instead of their original sentences, Allison Mitchner is being referred by the president/judge as Mary Ellen Mitchner. At the start of the film she is being referred as Allison Mitchner. The name of the actress that plays the role of Allison Mitchner is Mary Ellen Kleinhall. See more »Quotes
Documentarist: [while the US-Flag is waving in the desert:] Under the provision of Title 2 of the 1950 Internal Security Act, also known as the McCarran Act, the President of the United States of America is still authorized, without further approval by Congress to determine an event of insurrection within the United States and to declare the existence of an "internal security emergency". The President is then authorized to apprehend and detain each person as to whom there is reasonable ground to believe ...See more »
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As someone who was dealing with the draft board the year this was made, I was absolutely astounded by the truth of it's vision. The haircuts, clothes, figures of speech, that was what it looked and felt like at the time. Contrary to popular memory, everyone wasn't a hippy with a few "bad" people who were for the war. It WAS scary! I may be wrong, but I do believe that most of the dialogue of the trial section, anyway, was written from various quotes such as from the trial of the Chicago 7. If you want to see something amazing, imagine that on national TV!!! It was on national TV!!!!
Great movie!!!