The Strange One
1957 · Movie · 100 min. · United States
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.
Direction Jack Garfein
Cast Ben Gazzara · Pat Hingle · Peter Mark Richman · Arthur Storch · Paul Richards · Larry Gates · Clifton James · Geoffrey Horne · James Olson · Julie Wilson · George Peppard
Soundtrack Kenyon Hopkins
Screenplay Calder Willingham
Cinematography Burnett Guffey
Original title The Strange One
6.6
27 votes (FilmAffinity)
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