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| Marla Rosenfield with PJ Soles and Chris Somma in Rock N Roll High School Year: 1979 Rates: **** |
Hard Rock Bands like Cheap Trick and Van Halen were originally considered as the muse for the Roger Corman production ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL, directed by former Fillmore lightshow operator Allan Arkush...
And had the scene where a stoned PJ Soles as hyperactive/always-optimistic mega-fan Riff Randall... imagining punk-pioneers The Ramones in her album-adorned bedroom... instead involved randy crooners Robin Zander or David Lee Roth, it would probably be an instant sex scene or all-out attack...
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| From ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
But Joey Ramone was naturally shy and vulnerable in front the camera, perfectly suited to be adored by his biggest fan without seeming a threat and yet, the bands' in-person introduction, singing I Just Want To Have Something To Do while driving to the central Mayan Theater, takes place after 40 minutes, like any Kong-Mark: when the monster enters their own movie that spent the entire build-up anticipating their inevitable arrival...
But other than being Ramones propaganda, ROCK N ROCK HIGH SCHOOL has its own involving student stories: like jock-nerd Vincent Van Patten wanting to score with Soles' extremely confident Randall...
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| PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
Instead being paired by professional bathroom-office cupid Clint Howard (if Fonzie were a used car salesman) to Randall's shy, spectacle-wearing yet gorgeous sidekick Dey Young as science-phenom Kate Rambeau, whose art of bubbling beakers would carry over to the blowing-up-the-campus finale...
Which happens after what's a gritty Ramones mini-concert, with three or four complete tracks, edited perfectly into the teenager-in-peril stories antagonized by two great cinematic foes...
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| PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
Like snarky/sneaky groupie Lynn Farrell backstage, and at school is the central villain about as formidably over-the-top-evil as the dean in the previous years' smash ANIMAL HOUSE, where Corman-regular Mary Woronov's Fascist principal Miss Togar (with two hilarious hall-monitor minions) is dead-set at stopping PJ Soles' ambition to exist outside her rule-saturated campus...
In what's a creatively-shot hangout-stoner flick/concert-film/teenage-musical/comedy-satire hybrid with a band that just about everyone likes, combining power-chord punk with aggressive metal and catchy pop, perfectly suited in a 1970's tour-de-force vehicle as equally addictive and entertaining as the music that drives it.
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| Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| PJ Soles and Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| PJ Soles and Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL
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| Loren Lester and Daniel Davies in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| PJ Soles, Chris Somma and Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| PJ Soles, Chris Somma and Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| PJ Soles, Chris Somma and Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield and Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield and Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield and Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| The Ramones in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Mary Woronov in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Johnny Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Joey Ramone and PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Joey Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dee Dee Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| The Ramones and PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Clint Howard in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young and PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young and PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Clint Howard and Vincent Van Patten in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Clint Howard and Vincent Van Patten in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young and Allan Arkush in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Johnny Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| The Ramones in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| The Ramones in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dee Dee Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young and PJ Soles in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL with Don Steele & Lynn Farrell |
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| ROAD TO RUIN FROM ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Bob Dylan from ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Rolling Stones from ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Mary Woronov in ROCK N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield and Chris Somma in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Marla Rosenfield and Chris Somma in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Loren Lester and Daniel Davies in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Dey Young in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Joey Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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| Johnny and Joey Ramone in ROCK 'N ROLL HIGH SCHOOL |
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