Up the Academy
The education they got wasn't in books.
Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a Military Academy. The life of discipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be "real men" after one year.
Also released as Mad Magazine Presents: Up the Academy; working title The Brave Young Men of Weinberg. A standalone Warner Bros. military-school comedy. AFI identifies Scott Shapiro as Alfred E. Neuman and documents Ron Leibman's uncredited performance as Maj. Vaughan Liceman. No official DC character-profile match is established for Alfred or the pending supporting roles; complete silent/background coverage remains unresolved. No other DC adaptation is required. Runtime remains disputed: AFI lists 88 minutes, while Rotten Tomatoes and Apple list 89; the existing 87-minute value remains unverified.
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Up the Academy is title 32 of 75 in our Live-action Elseworlds viewing sequence. Start with this self-contained 1980 military-school comedy about four boys sent to an academy. No earlier DC screen adaptation is established as required viewing.
Cast
Ralph MacchioChooch Bombalazzi
Hutch ParkerOliver Holt (as J. Hutchison)
Tom PostonSgt. Skip Sisson
Antonio FargasCoach
Stacey NelkinCandy
Barbara BachBliss
Robert Downey Jr.Boy on Soccer Team (uncredited)
Ron LeibmanMajor Vaughn Liceman (uncredited)
Ian WolfeCommandant CausewayTrack your DC progress
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