This film might have been one of the more debauched films of all time.

It was filled with rockstars and underage girls and those that were not underage were barely legal.

I’m shocked that any filming actually got done at all.

The name of the movie is also a song.

It also was the end of the career of one of Hollywood’s longest running character actors.

He started off in the silent movies and had a career right up through this movie.

Although he lived almost two decades after the movie was shot, he was essentially banned from working again.

Apparently, it was OK for the rockstars in the movie to have their way with as many underage girls as they wanted.

However, when our aging actor, who was in his 70’s then decided he too wanted to participate, everyone said it was creepy and gross.

It was creepy and gross and illegal, but the rockstars were being hypocrites because what they were doing was also illegal.

They actually threatened our actor and then beat him up to the point where he wasn’t able to work any longer and was scared from then until his death to go anywhere near a set.

Film: Rock N Roll High School

One of Hollywood’s longest running character actor: Grady Sutton
Grady Harwell Sutton was an American film and television character actor from the 1920s to the 1970s. He appeared in more than 180 films.

Rockstars: Ramones
The Ramones were an American punk rock band that formed in the New York City neighborhood of Forest Hills, Queens, in 1974. They are often cited as the first true punk rock group. Despite achieving limited commercial success during their time together, the band is today seen as highly influential

Plot

The film is set in 1980. Vince Lombardi High School keeps losing principals to nervous breakdowns because of the students’ love of rock ‘n’ roll and their disregard for education. The leader of the students, Riff Randell, is the biggest Ramones fan at the school and also the worst behavioral problem, in that her disciplinary record fills an entire filing cabinet. She waits in line for three days to get tickets to see the band, hoping to meet Joey Ramone so she can give him a song she wrote for the band, “Rock ‘n’ Roll High School”.

When the tyrannical Principal Togar takes her ticket away, Riff and her best friend Kate Rambeau have to find another way to meet their heroes: winning a radio contest. Riff succeeds in delivering her song to Joey Ramone, but the next day Principal Togar and a group of parents attempt to burn a pile of rock records. In response, the students, joined by the Ramones (who are made honorary students), overthrow the teachers and hall monitors to take over the high school, with Principal Togar asking the musicians “Do your parents know you’re Ramones?” When the police are summoned and demand that the students evacuate the building, they do so, but then the students and the Ramones burn down the school as a final act of youthful rebellion.

Cast:
P. J. Soles as Riff Randell
Vince Van Patten as Tom Roberts
Clint Howard as Eaglebauer
Dey Young as Kate Rambeau
Mary Woronov as Principal Evelyn Togar
Paul Bartel as Mr. McGree
Dick Miller as Police Chief
Don Steele as Screamin’ Steve Stevens
Alix Elias as Coach Steroid
Daniel Davies as Fritz Gretel
Loren Lester as Fritz Hansel
Gillian Farrell as Angel Dust
Herbie Braha as Sal
Grady Sutton as School Board President
Joey Ramone as Himself
Johnny Ramone as Himself
Dee Dee Ramone as Himself
Marky Ramone as Himself
Chris Somma as Shawn
Marla Rosenfield as Cheryl
Barbara Ann Walters as Cafeteria Lady
Terry Soda as Norma
Joe Van Sickle as Cop

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