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Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me (1971) — OmList

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Paramount Pictures presents

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

directed by Jeffrey Young

“The man who saw it coming before it hit the fan.”

19711h 30mRDrama

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Paramount Pictures presents

Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

directed by Jeffrey Young

“The man who saw it coming before it hit the fan.”

19711h 30mRDrama

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§ Synopsis

Drama

Free-thinking student tries to put up with life at a straight-laced college in 1958.

§ Keywords

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kiss college life

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§ Cast

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Barry Primus

as Gnossos "Paps" Pappadopoulis

David Downing

Susan Tyrrell

Bruce Davison

Zack Norman

Raúl Juliá

as Juan Carlos Rosenbloom

James Noble

as Father Pettis

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