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Rock 'n' Roll High School (Widescreen)
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Product Details
- Starring: P.J. Soles, Vincent Van Patten, Clint Howard, Dey Young, Mary Woronov
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- Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
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- Binding: VHS Tape
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- Director: Joe Dante, Allan Arkush, Jerry Zucker
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- EAN: 9786304238110
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- Format: Color, NTSC
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- ISBN: 6304238118
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- Label: New Concorde
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- Manufacturer: New Concorde
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Product Group: Video
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- Publisher: New Concorde
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- Release Date: 2001-08-28
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- Studio: New Concorde
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- Theatrical Release Date: 1979-08-24
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- Title: Rock 'n' Roll High School (Widescreen)
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- UPC: 736991219434
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Product Description: "Do your parents know you're Ramones?" With those withering words, Miss Togar (Mary Woronov), the uptight neofascist principal of Vince Lombardi High School, addresses the four mop-haired, leather-jacketed members of America's first and most famous punk band. And you know it won't be long before the Ramones's jackhammer riffs are blaring through the public address system at maximum volume, the kids are running--not walking--wild in the hallways (without passes!), and Miss Togar's gulag is re-christened "Rock 'n' Roll High School." Then, in keeping with the outrageously nihilistic animus of punk, the high school students and the Ramones just blow the place to smithereens. It's a crowd- pleasing, fantasy-fulfillment climax that combines the apocalyptic finale of Michelangelo Antonioni's Zabriskie Point with the explosive conclusion of Alice Cooper's "School's Out." Rock 'n' Roll High School is a blast, a goofy and liberating salute to the rebel spirit behind the teen rock & roll movies of the 1950s, which always pitted the kids' insatiable appetite for fun against the adults' fear-based authoritarianism. The film is emblematic of the disarmingly silly, tongue-in-cheek humor of the youth-oriented B-pictures cranked out in the '50s and '60s by renowned low-budget exploitation mogul Roger Corman (who gave many a hungry young filmmaker, including the creators of this film, their start in the biz), and of the noisy, anarchic energy of '70s punk rock, as personified by the inimitable Ramones. In the words of the maestros' beach-blanket-buzz-saw title anthem, this movie is "Fun, fun, oh baby, fun, fun..." --Jim Emerson
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Customer Reviews
Will Your School Be Next?
Take the serious cinema from the 1950s, which focused on teenage angst, merge it with punk rock and bring The Ramones into the mix as honorary students at a high school and it creates this timeless rave-up of the generational divide caused by rock-n-roll.
The over-the-top acting and a script that doesn't take itself too seriously is the winning combination.
The iron-fisted principal, two students who are snitches for the administration, out-of-touch parents and tough-talking police ultimately face a student body unified by music; through a teen talented in songwriting - who is thrust into a position of leadership - one "cool" teacher and a band looking to blow the roof off every night club (or school) with its high-octane, three-chord songs.
The casting of The Ramones was masterful, as their music harkens back to the early days of rock-n-roll, but with a punk credo they created in the 1970s through legendary gigs in New York City clubs.
The bonus features - including outtakes, commentary by producer Roger Corman & director Allan Arkush, along with the original theatrical trailer & radio ads - sends this set to the head of the class.
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MEMORIES
Totally as I remember it. Brought back so many memories. LOVED IT. GABBA GABBA HEY!!!!! shelly
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70s cult classic....
This is a funny movie with an outstanding soundtrack (Devo, Brian Eno, Nick Lowe and not on the soundtrack album, Velvet Underground..Mary Woronov was also part of Warhol's Factory), and the actors are camping it up big time. Clint Howard (brother of Ron Howard) is hilarious in it.
Old school punk rockers will see some of the Germs in the movie.
The actual high school is El Segundo and the live music at the Roxy in LA.
As far as rock films go, this one works, the Ramones goofing on themselves. It does have some drug scenes in it that are somewhat innocent (Riff getting stoned and the Ramones serenading to her in her bedroom is hilarious) But it's intentionally D-U-M-B.
This exposed The Ramones to a mainstream audience that either got it or didn't, and the songs in the film weren't any of the dark ones like "53rd and 3rd".
This was shown on cable countless times in the early 80s, I think this is the third repackage, but it's got a lot of stuff in it, unfortunately only one of the Ramones contributed, as 3 of them have passed away, and they broke up in '96 under less than great circumstances.
Hopefully this will get back in the midnight movie circuit in some cities.
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Rock and Roll High School
This DVD was exactly as advertised and arrived when promised.
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it is a classic
It is a classic. A must for any Ramones fan.
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