Fraternity Row

Fraternity Row (1977)

They didn't smoke grass. They didn't take the pill. They didn't do their own thing. They went to college in the Fifties. They pledged fraternities. They celebrated Hell Week. They were the buttoned-down, bottled-up generation. And sometimes they exploded.

Zac is an idealistic student who, after arriving at college, decides to pledge the Gamma Nu Pi fraternity. Unhappy with what he sees as the bigotry and abusiveness of the hazing process, he tries to reform the system, even though his steady girl, Jennifer, doesn't approve. Zac eventually finds an ally in his pledgemaster, but the head of the fraternity proves cruelly inflexible about preserving the uglier rituals.

Date of release
1977-06-03
TMDB
7.0 / 10 (1)
Runtime
1h 41m
Genres
Drama
Director
Thomas J. Tobin

Casting

Interesting facts

Fraternity Row is a 1977 American drama film portraying life in a 1950s fraternity at a fictional college directed by Thomas J. Tobin. The film takes place in the spring of 1954 at Summit College, a fictional college in Erie, Pennsylvania.

Development

The film was originally Charles Gary Allison's thesis as a film student at the University of Southern California. It is said to have been inspired by the 1959 hazing of Kappa Sigma pledge Richard Swanson, who died after attempting to swallow a large piece of raw liver without chewing.

Production began in the summer of 1975, with additional filming in December 1975 and January 1976. It was filmed at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Students were used as both cast and crew.

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