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Three O'Clock High (1987) Movie Review

1,802 views · Published 19 August 2015 · 21:36 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: ramboraph4life · 2015 · Entertainment

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The second of two films that luv2eatpuss79, who sent me quite a few great things in a recent package, asked me to review.

Three O'Clock High is a 1987 high-school comedy film, directed by Phil Joanou, written by Richard Christian Matheson and Thomas Szollosi; the executive producer was Aaron Spelling. 

The plot is loosely connected to the 1952 western classic, High Noon, wherein a town sherriff is forced into a showdown with a notorious criminal at a pre-arranged time: high school student (Casey Siemaszko) accidentally offends a bully (Richard Tyson) and devotes most of his school day to avoiding a fistfight with the bully at 3:00 p.m.

The movie was filmed at Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah, but was based, in part, on Matheson and Szollosi's own high school experiences in California. 

Critical reception was mixed and the film did not do well at the box office; but on home video it has become something of a minor cult classic.

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