Product Details

• Actors: Ben Gazzara, Julie Wilson, Mark Richman, George Peppard, Pat Hingle
• Directors: Jack Garfein
• Writers: Calder Willingham
• Format: Black & White, Dolby, DVD, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English, French
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sony Pictures
• DVD Release Date: June 16, 2009
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0024FAG12
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #55,213 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Strange One" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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STRANGE ONE - DVD Movie

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Power is perverting people, April 26, 2002

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Jacques COULARDEAU "A soul doctor, so to say" (OLLIERGUES France) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Strange One [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Ben Gazzara is a perfect bully in a military academy. He uses his position of authority to settle his own accounts with one cadet, the son of the major of the academy, and the major himself. He terrorizes and crushes the freshmen cadets in all possible ways to achieve his own end which is pure domination. The interest of the film is the unanimous rebellion among the cadets and their final treatment of the bully they exclude from the academy after making him sign a confession of his « crimes ». The best part in the role is the fact that the bully always assumes an aristocratic stand and not a purely violent attitude. He dominates like a feudal squire or baron of old and he always manages to enwrap other people in his own acts so that he can blackmail them into lying and silence. But the final treatment reveals him to be nothing but a coward, afraid of suffering and frightened by the perspective of losing his power just as if his power was the only thing he could hold on, he needed to be anything, to respect himself. Power corrupts, it's true, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Dr Jacques COULARDEAU

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Still worthwhile, August 6, 2009

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Roger Long "longrush" (Port Clinton, OH USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Strange One (DVD)

I first saw this movie when it came out in the 1950s and was much taken with it, so taken that I read the novel on which it was based, "End as a Man," by Calder Willingham. Some 50 years later, I watched this DVD and was glad that my youthful impression of the movie was unchanged. My taste has changed much over time, but not in this case.

Ben Gazarra is the title character, a sadistic bully at a Southern military academy. How he meets his comeuppance is the entire plot. The characters, plot and ambience are all fine. Beyond that I'll say nothing so that the unsuspecting viewer can see this afresh.

On the disk is a recent interview with Gazarra, telling how he came to play the role (his first in the movies) and interesting details about the filming. Don't miss this. It adds enormously.

6 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Superb, October 7, 1999

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mathew nicholls ([e-mail]) (Wellington New Zealand) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Strange One [VHS] (VHS Tape)

This would be one of the best movies of this era I have seen, Ben Gazzara is as hilariously evil as ever. I hate to think how many times I have watched this movie.