- Source: Fraternity Row (film)
Fraternity Row is a 1977 American drama film portraying life in a 1950s fraternity at a fictional college.
Plot
College students pledge the Gamma Nu Pi fraternity at a fictional college and endure common hazing practices such as humiliation, forced eating of onions and severe paddlings.
Cast
Peter Fox as Rodger Carter
Gregory Harrison as Zac Sterling
Scott Newman as Chunk Cherry
Nancy Morgan as Jennifer Harris
Wendy Phillips as Betty Ann Martin
Robert Emhardt as Brother Bob Abernathy
Cliff Robertson as The Narrator
Dean Smith as Andy Nelson
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.
Reception
Fraternity Row met with generally positive reviews, but the film saw very light business at the box office.
The film has not been released on DVD, although it was briefly available on VHS cassette in the early 1980s.
See also
List of hazing deaths in the United States
Hazing
History of North American college fraternities and sororities
Matt's Law
The Gordie Foundation
References
External links
Fraternity Row at IMDb
Fraternity Row at the AFI Catalog of Feature Films
Fraternity Row at AllMovie