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The film is based on the play End as a Man by Calder Willingham, which opened in New York on 15 September 1953, and the novel of the same name. There are some significant differences between the film and its source material. In the play and novel, it is established that Jocko de Paris is the son of a powerful man whose enmity is feared by school authorities. In both the play and the novel, the school authorities are responsible for ridding their institution of Jocko. In addition, the character of "Rosebud" does not appear in the play or the novel.
According to the Daily Variety review, the Production Code mandated that three minutes of footage dealing with homosexuality be deleted on the grounds that it "violated the rules banning sex perversion or any inference of it." The files in the MPAA/PCA Collection contain no reference to those cuts, however. Although there is no overt reference to homosexuality, there is an undercurrent of homosexuality, which was also present in the play and novel, that runs throughout the film.
Location shooting was done at Rollins College in Orlando, FL and at The Citadel in South Carolina and interiors were filmed at the Shamrock Studios in Winter Park, FL. Ben Gazzara, Arthur Storch, Pat Hingle and Paul E. Richards all reprised their Broadway roles for the film. THE STRANGE ONE marked the film debuts of Hingle, Gazzara, George Peppard, Geoffrey Horne, and Julie Wilson, and the motion picture directorial debut of Jack Garfein, who directed the play on Broadway.
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Even if THE STRANGE ONE did get re-issued onto CD, most members here wouldn't leave their comic book conventions to buy it...
Wow....you're so much better then us, aren't you?
Pretentious prick.
Think of it this way: if everyone else started listening to the types of film scores you do, then you wouldn't be able to keep coming on here acting like you're superior due to the fact that you appreciate this stuff and hardly anyone else does. Pompous ass.
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An odd film and score, but intriguing both.
I thought I would "get" the score better after watching the movie, but it might take a few more viewings.
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Somebody commented somewhere that Gazzara's character looked a bit like Bette Davis with the cigarette holder he used.
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