In the late 1970s, Roger Corman was looking to produce a high school-themed movie. Knowing that one of his young directing proteges had a bent for music, the head of New World Pictures had an idea.…
I’ve been thinking, since ‘Grease’ and ‘Saturday Night Fever’ are hits, why don’t you put music in it and we’ll call it ‘Disco High’?”
“When I was in high school [in New Jersey], I would stare out of the window and make scenarios in my head, daydreaming of crazy thing I’d like to happen at school,” Arkush says today. “One vision was having my favorite band come play a concert. As a teenager in the ‘60s, I envisioned the Rolling Stones or the Yardbirds. I knew then it would make for a great movie.”
For Arkush, the pay was low but the education was invaluable under Corman’s tutelage. He worked wherever he was needed, from answering phones to handling marketing to editing trailers of international releases acquired by New World, including Federico Fellini’s “Amarcord.” Arkush was among a small team of fellow soon-to-be prominent directors like Joe Dante and Jonathan Demme who were film lovers first, above anything else.
The Ramones were exactly who Arkush was searching for — badass, rebellious, unruly — the perfect band to disrupt suburban America. He went to see Sire Records’ Seymour and Linda Stein. “…and they blow up the school at the end of the movie,” Arkush explained by the end of the meeting. “We’re in!” declared Linda Stein.
It’s difficult to pinpoint the film’s specific release date. Corman only made 100-150 prints. Always more interested in saving money, he never wanted his films to exceed 89 minutes — four reels to one can. Therefore, “Rock ’n’ Roll High School” did not have a wide release but rather toured the country, one market at a time, like a band itself.
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