{"id":36301,"date":"2021-07-24T10:09:30","date_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36301"},"modified":"2021-07-24T10:09:30","modified_gmt":"2021-07-24T14:09:30","slug":"the-original-animal-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/24\/the-original-animal-house\/","title":{"rendered":"The Original Animal House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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See if this sounds familiar: In a college town circa 1962 a group of students carouse from bar to bar, falling in and out of bed with coeds as well as married women and culminating in a prank that has disastrous consequences<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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This is a movie that I fell across as I was searching for something to watch on my favorite streaming channel Pub-D-Hub<\/em><\/a>. I decided to watch it because I was curious about the “perform pranks with disastrous consequences”<\/em> line in the synopsis. I had<\/em> to know the nature of the pranks. I continued watching because of the cast which includes some of Britain’s biggest stars at the start of their careers.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The Wild and the Willing<\/em> may bear several similarities in plot to 1978’s Animal House<\/em> — there’s even a huge parade through town complete with floats — but the earlier film is not a comedy at all. It’s a drama and a fairly compelling one. I usually dismiss movies I’ve never heard of because I always thought if I were unaware of them, how good could they be? I’ve spent an inordinate amount of my life watching and reading about movies. I thought I knew everything. As I trawl around the inventories of these obscure streaming channels, I find I don’t know all that much. It seems I am making new discoveries all of the time.<\/p>\n

Watch The Wild and the Willing<\/em><\/a> for yourself embedded below or check it out at the fantastic Internet Archive<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n