The Strange One (1957)

1957 · Feature film · 110 min · dir. Jack Garfein

"THE STRANGE ONE" IS A STRANGE ONE!

• Drama

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Synopsis

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.

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Details

Director

Jack Garfein

Writer

Calder Willingham

Composer

Kenyon Hopkins

Cinematography

Burnett Guffey

Studio

Columbia Pictures, Horizon Pictures

Released

1957-04-12

Running time

110 minutes

Cast & crew

• JJack Garfein Director
• Ben Gazzara
• Pat Hingle
• Peter Mark Richman
• AArthur Storch
• PPaul E. Richards
• Larry Gates
• Clifton James
• Geoffrey Horne

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