Though HALLS OF ANGER is not strictly a sports film, basketball plays a crucial role in this socially conscious drama about school desegregation. Black English teacher Quincy Davis (Calvin Lockhart) is reassigned from the all-white suburban high school where he's been teaching to a tough, 3000-student inner-city school, where he's promoted to vice principal and charged with maintaining order when some 60 of his former students are bused in. He does his best to stem the rising tide of racial conflict and when a white student (Jeff Bridges) meets with violent opposition while trying to make the basketball team, Davis, a former basketball player, puts everything on the ...
Released:
1970
Rated:
GP
Length:
100 mins