Rock 'n' roll high school [videorecording] / a New World Picture ; screenplay by Richard Whitley & Russ Dvonch and Joseph McBride ; story by Allan Arkush & Joe Dante ; produced by Michael Finnell ; directed by Allan Arkush.
Format:
[videorecording] /
Edition:
Special ed.
Publisher:
Concorde-New Horizons,
Copyright Date:
c2001
Description:
1 videodisc (84 min. [i.e. 94 min.]) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (22 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.)
P.J. Soles (Riff Randell), Vincent Van Patten (Tom Roberts), Clint Howard (Eaglebauer), Dey Young (Kate Rambeau), Mary Woronov (Miss Togar), Paul Bartel (Mr. McGree), Dick Miller (Police Chief), Don Steele (Screamin' Steve Stevens), Alix Elias (Coach Steroid), and The Ramones. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1979. Special features: Cast & crew [text feature]; Original Allan Arkush Thank You/Plus P.S. [text feature]; Rock 'n' Roll High School locker [text and audio feature]; Commentary (Director Allan Arkush, producer Michael Finnell and screenwriter Richard Whitley) [audio only]; Roger Corman interview with Leonard Maltin (5 min.); Ramones (Concert outtakes (12 min.), [text and audio features]); Original theatrical trailer (2 min.); Preview attractions (6 min.); includes a 22 page booklet featuring cast interviews, director interview, and essays by Richard Whitley & Russ Dvonch, and Kent Beyda.
Contents:
First day at Vince Lombardi High -- Opening credits -- Smoking in the boys' room -- Eaglebauer Enterprises -- Hard hearing -- Ear mall -- Mouse study -- Riff's gift to the Ramones -- Dreaming of life after Togar -- Ticket camp-out -- Training partner -- Riff on angel dust -- I just wanna have something -- I Want You Around -- Custom van -- Road to ruin! -- Rockatorium -- Blitzkrieg Bop -- Teenage Lobotomy -- California Sun -- Pinhead -- She's the One -- Riff meets the Ramones -- Vinyl bonfire -- Rock 'n' roll high on the air -- Do You Wanna Dance? -- One more black mark -- School's Out -- Rock 'n' roll high school - Credits.
Summary:
In the tradition of Sixties beach party and teen-movie nonsense, Rock 'n' Roll High School is the story of Vince Lombardi High, whose fun-loving students at are sorely oppressed by their new authoritarian principal. There is also making out, hall monitors, exploding white mice, a shy, bookish lovesick girl who only wants to be noticed by the studly BMOC, and a spirited bad girl carrying a torch for the pizza-gobbling singer of a rock band. In the end, the school goes up in innocent, pre-Columbine flames, while goofy, good-natured, infectious silliness is accompanied by the revved-up Ramones at their red-hot, rubber-burning foot-to-the-floor best. Too bad that there isn't drive-in nearby to screen it.
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