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Title The Devil's Playground.

Publication Info. Kino Lorber, 1976.
[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022.

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
digital
video file MPEG-4 Flash
Note Title from title frames.
Film
In Process Record.
Performer Arthur Dignam, Charles McCallum, Gerry Duggan, John Frawley, Jonathan Hardy, Nick Tate, Peter Cox, Simon Burke
Event Originally produced by Kino Lorber in 1976.
Summary This Australian film classic, the feature film debut of Fred Schepisi (Roxanne, A Cry in the Dark), is a semi-autobiographical drama of a 13-year-old boy's struggles at a Catholic seminary in the 1950s. Tom (Simon Burke) is a student gripped with Catholic guilt as he struggles with his nascent sexual yearning and his divine calling. The seminary, run by a group of Brothers also torn between their vows and human desire, follows a harsh code of religious discipline. The boys are lorded over by the obsessively watchful eye of Brother Francine (Arthur Dignam), who prowls the halls looking for evidence of "the undisciplined mind." A lyrical, mordantly funny memory film about the age-old struggles of mind, body and spirit. This re-release is being presented in a brand-new high definition transfer.
System Details Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Language In English
Subject Coming of age.
Drama.
Motion pictures.
Queer cinema.
Added Author Schepisi, Fred, film director.
Dignam, Arthur, actor.
McCallum, Charles, actor.
Duggan, Gerry, actor.
Frawley, John, actor.
Hardy, Jonathan, actor.
Tate, Nick, actor.
Cox, Peter, actor.
Burke, Simon, actor.
Kino Lorber (Firm), distributor.
Kanopy (Firm), distributor.
Music No. 13233111 Kanopy
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