The Lords of Discipline

Name: The Lords of Discipline
Director: Franc Roddam
Released: 1983
Duration: 102 min
Rating: 6.6
Cast: David Keith, Robert Prosky, G.D. Spradlin, Barbara Babcock, Michael Biehn

1983 · 102 MIN · IMDB 6.6 · 3,052 VOTES · DIR. Franc Roddam

Overview

Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the form of The Ten, a secret group of the elite students. They want Pearce to leave on his own free will, but are prepared to torture him to make it 'his free will'. Will is forced to help Pearce and he is prepared to risk his own career to do so.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,236 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:33 Sir! Mr. Alexander, sir! Permission to cross your quad, sir!

00:07:45 - Hey, Will, you get your butt in here. - Go on in, honey, I'll be right back.

00:10:41 Come on down, do you understand? Get those knees up!

00:14:01 Why not plain old nigger?

00:16:55 care to partake of any food off my plate, sir?

00:21:40 Let's go. Let's go. Come on.

00:24:52 Then he couldn't stop pissing in his pants.

00:30:31 Just get some sleep. Come on.

00:34:20 - And more importantly, it works. - Yes, sir. It's just...

00:38:05 Poteete!

00:41:18 - Shit? Now you said it, "shit." - You see what I mean?

00:45:43 which I believe expresses the ideals of the ring

00:52:38 Move out, Pearce.

00:56:53 That's Mrs. Berrineau to you, Pignetti.

00:59:49 and everything Mark and Pig and Tradd's been through has been a joke.

01:02:57 - The hell you didn't. - I was taken.

01:06:10 Come on!

01:11:42 - Let's go! - A surprise!

01:14:35 What about Bobby Bentley?

01:18:16 to take gas from your car on this specific night?

01:23:44 Get laid, asshole.

01:28:05 What do you make of that?

01:33:07 It's the only thing I ever earned in my whole life.

01:36:22 Yes.

Cast & Characters

David Keith Will McLean Robert Prosky Col. 'Bear' Berrineau G.D. Spradlin Gen. Bentley Durrell Barbara Babcock Abigail St. Croix Michael Biehn John Alexander Rick Rossovich Dante `Pig` Pignetti John Lavachielli Mark Santoro Mitchell Lichtenstein Tradd St. Croix Mark Breland Tom Pearce Malcolm Danare Poteete

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,236

Dialogue density12.1 lines / min

First line00:00:33

Final line01:36:22

Production Record

DirectorFranc Roddam

LanguageEnglish

Revenue$11,787,127

IMDb votes3,052