The Explosive Generation

Never has youth gone on such a rampage... never has a motion picture gone so far in telling their raging story!

The Explosive Generation — Plot

Peter Gifford is a likable, dedicated schoolteacher that teaches a senior life skills class. When student Janet Sommers brings up the topic of sex and dating, he asks students to write questions on the topic, and will cover them in the next class. The parents get wind of what Gifford is about to do, notify the principal, and he warns Peter not to read the questions in class. Gifford decides to go against this and is suspended. The whole student body protests, and the administration gets worried on what to do.

• Release date
• October 19, 1961
• Runtime
• 89 min
• Genres
• Drama
• Director
• Buzz Kulik

The Explosive Generation — Cast

William Shatner Peter Gifford Patty McCormack Janet Sommers Lee Kinsolving Dan Carlyle Virginia Field Mrs. Katie Sommers Edward Platt Mr. Morton Beau Bridges Stephen Jocelyn Brando Mrs. Ryker Phillip Terry Mr. Carlyle