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Released
1988 · FILM

The George McKenna Story

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie
Streaming on
  • Netflix

Synopsis

Washington portrays a school principal at a challenging inner-city high school in Los Angeles, determined to eliminate drugs, gangs, and declining teacher morale while restoring educational standards. The film is based on a true story.

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How many hands made this film

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Robin WilsonShot by Isidore MankofskyScored by Herbie HancockDesigned by Jeffrey L Goldstein

Also known as

  • In der Hitze der Gewaltde
  • Hard Lessonsen

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