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The Great Santini

1979

Lewis John Carlino

Robert Duvall, Blythe Danner, Michael O'Keefe, Stan Shaw ...

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Drama The four Meechum kids and their mother move from Marine post to Marine post, following their father, a pilot, in the peaceful years before the Vietnam war. Bull Meechum, the self-described "great Santini," is manic: a martinet at once enthusiastic and abusive of his family. In Beaufort, South Carolina, Bull is assigned to whip into shape a squadron of pilots, and Ben makes friends with Toomer, a slow-talking Black youth. Racial and ... [+]

The Great Santini

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