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The Explosive Generation Reviews

  • 1961
  • 1 hr 29 mins
  • Drama
  • NR
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Story of a high-school teacher (William Shatner) who initiates a classroom discussion of teen sex problems, and the uproar it causes. Patty McCormack, Virginia Field, Lee Kinsolving. Bobby: Billy Gray. Herman: Steve Dunne. Sommers: Arch Johnson. Directed by Buzz Kulik.

Shatner is a high-school teacher fired for teaching sex education. The students protest with a "silence strike" that climaxes in an eerily quiet basketball game. All works out for the best when the parents of one girl are persuaded that she didn't do the nasty after all. Shatner gets his job back shortly thereafter. An anachronism that shows its budget limitations at every turn, but weirdly interesting nonetheless.