Bless the Beasts and the Children

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I read this book in high school, I was wondering if anyone else here on this board has read this book. I don't want to give out spoilers, but I think all of us could relate to the characters in this book in some way.

I have not read this book but I like the song Bless The Beast and the Children by Bette Middler it really is a good song.

I haven't read the book but it was made into a movie that was released in 1971.

IMDb Bless the Beasts and the Children

...I knew the title song from the Carpenters .

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I remember seeing it [the movie] on tv back in the 80s, and thinking it was like a warped time capsule of the era in which it was made.

Yeah, I agree, like a lot of other 1970s movies, it's very much a product of its time.

that reminds me, I must try to rent it on Netflix. see if my memory jibes with what the movie actually was about.

Delinquent non conformist juveniles trying to save a small heard of captive buffalo from hunters?

Post "Lost In Space" Billy Mumy was in it, as a gangly teenager.

billy mumy was/is a very talented person.

I agree. He was a really good actor and he's a pretty good musician too. Anyone who can make a hit record about Fish Heads has got to be good.

listening to him being interviewed on "coast to coast" revealed him to be a pretty solid human being as well.

I'd like to see that movie sometime. I think I might watch it on YouTube.

Holy crap! talk about bumping a really old thread of mine...

But yea, the movie appears from time to time on youtube

on the IMDB thing it continues to be controversial. it makes me wish I could hop into the WABAC machine and go back to 1970 again.