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[email protected]) N2825 NATIONAL LAMPOON’S ANIMAL HOUSE (USA, 1978) (Other titles: American college; Animal house) Credits: director, John Landis ; writers, Harold Ramis, Douglas Kenney, Chris Miller. Cast: John Belushi, Tim Matheson, John Vernon, Thomas Hulce. Summary: Comedy film set at a 1960s Middle Western college. The members of Delta Tau Chi fraternity offend the straight-arrow and up-tight people on campus in a film which irreverently mocks college traditions. One of the villains is an ROTC cadet who, it is noted at the end of the film, was later shot by his own men in Vietnam. Ansen, David. “Movies: Gross out” Newsweek 92 (Aug 7, 1978), p. 85. Barbour, John. [National Lampoon’s animal house] Los Angeles 23 (Sep 1978), p. 240-43. Bartholomew, David. “National Lampoon’s animal house” Film bulletin 47 (Oct/Nov 1978), p. R-F. Biskind, Peter. [National Lampoon’s animal house] Seven days 2/17 (Nov 10, 1978), p. 33. Bookbinder, Robert. The films of the seventies Secaucus, N.J. : Citadel, 1982. (p. 225-28) Braun, Eric. “National Lampoon’s animal house” Films and filming 25/7 (Apr 1979), p. 31-2. Canby, Vincent. “What’s so funny about potheads and toga parties?” New York times 128 (Nov 19, 1978), sec. 2, p. 17. Cook, David A.. Lost illusions : American cinema in the shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 New York : Scribner’s, 1999.