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Verenigde Staten
Drama
126 minuten

geregisseerd door Harold Becker
met George C. Scott, Timothy Hutton en Ronny Cox

Een 141 jaar oude, strikte militaire academie wordt opgeschrikt door het nieuws dat het gesloopt moet worden en vervangen door woonhuizen. De bevelhebber General Harlan Bach en zijn directe kadetten organiseren een sfeer binnen de academie waardoor iedereen besluit te ageren tegen de beslissing om te slopen. De kadetten nemen bezit van de 'campus' en weigeren alles en iedereen te toegang. Uiteindelijk komen ze tegenover het echte leger te staan..

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Triva:
1 van de eerste film rollen van Tom Cruise, and Sean Penn.


Production

This film was filmed on location at Valley Forge Military Academy and College (VFMAC) in Wayne, Pennsylvania VFMAC is also known as the Military College of Pennsylvania. Most of the filming took place at Wheeler Hall and the now demolished Clothier Hall. The uniforms shown in the movie were accurate VFMAC uniforms of that period, with modifications. The film was originally going to be filmed at Riverside Military Academy in Gainesville, Georgia. Producers changed their minds after a tour of the campus and deciding that it "didn't have enough walls." RMA officials countered by saying that allowing production would have caused too much disruption of the cadets' daily lives. The second proposal of filming locations was at Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana. The school denied the request upon hearing the ending of the story. The third proposal of filming locations was at Hargrave Military Academy (HMA) in Chatham, Virginia. Again, school officials turned down the request after learning of the film's plot and after discovering that producers wanted to erect a wall around the front of the campus.