Up the Academy (1980) on Netflix
For their antics, Chooch, Ike, Hash and Oliver land at Weinberg Military Academy, four troublemakers from very different families. Major Vaughn Liceman takes charge of the recruits.
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Plot summary
Four young men who cause trouble are sent to Weinberg Military Academy as punishment. Chooch is the heir to an organized crime family, Ike's father works as a faith healer, Hash is an Arab sheik's son, and Oliver's father is a governor campaigning for re-election. Major Vaughn Liceman runs the new recruits. Three of them set out to cause trouble, while Chooch wants to go straight and puts his attention on his studies. Rodney, who was expelled from other schools for setting fires, soon joins them as a roommate. Oliver's girlfriend Candy, back home, turns up enrolled at a military school for girls close by, and the recruits make plans to slip out to see her.
Cast
- Wendell Brownas Ike
- Tommy Citeraas Hash
- Harry Teinowitzas Rodney Ververgaert
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Up the Academy (1980)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Before shooting began, Warner Bros. rejected two different scripts for the Mad magazine movie, including one written by Mad's own writers, before Mad publisher Bill Gaines settled for a script he only partly liked.
- Mad publisher Bill Gaines paid Warner Bros. $30,000 just to strip Mad magazine's name and Alfred E. Neuman off the film for its television and Home Box Office airings, and said it was money well spent.
- Actor Ron Leibman was so unhappy with the finished film that, despite playing a sizable role, he had his name completely stripped from the credits and all promotional material.
- Gaines personally hand-wrote apology letters to every reader who wrote in to Mad magazine to complain about the film, on top of paying Warner Bros. to scrub the magazine's name from home video copies.
