Most shockingly, Tradd is a member and has kept them ahead of McLean at every step. Not only have the Ten been operating for years, but Durrell (himself a past member of The Ten) supports their activities.
Croix house and discovers the history of The Ten from Mr. Before he can submit his resignation, McLean sees McIntyre on campus meeting with Bear and Tradd's father. McLean offers to resign if Alexander will show leniency towards Santoro and Tradd, which Alexander accepts. Alexander issues a large number of demerits against the rest of McLean's faction, placing them also at risk of expulsion. The Ten retaliate by having Pignetti charged with theft and expelled by an Honor Court that they control. They distract the Ten and McLean unmasks one of them, John Alexander. McLean and his friends arrive at the Hole just as Pearce is threatened with immolation. Together with his roommates, he kidnaps Dan McIntyre, a former member of the Ten, and forces him to disclose the location of the Hole, the place where they take cadets to be tortured. McLean's attempts to protect him are thwarted when someone intercepts their communications. In addition, Pearce had razor blades placed in his athletic shoes, and suffers multiple, small lacerations. Poteete is left standing all night on a high ledge, in which McLean is unable to save him from falling the next morning and Pearce is attacked and has the number 10 carved in his back.
Both Poteete and Pearce become targets of the Ten, a traditional clandestine group of seniors dedicated to ridding the school of "unfit" cadets. Bentley Durrell, who warns him not to be soft. This draws the attention of the school's commanding officer, Lt. Croix, the last of whom offers him a key to his parents' house.Īs the term begins, McLean's roommates participate in breaking in the new cadets, while McLean remains aloof. McLean's roommates at the Institute are Dante "Pig" Pignetti, Mark Santoro and Tradd St. "Bear" Berrineau, asks him to protect Pearce.
Among these are the overweight Poteete and the Institute's first black cadet, Tom Pearce. Will McLean is a senior cadet at the Carolina Military Institute, a school that outwardly promises to produce men of honor but practices brutal hazing against the plebes (freshman cadets). The college scenes were filmed primarily at Wellington College in England, as none of the American military academies would allow filming on their grounds because of the book's less-than-positive portrayal of life at a military academy. The film stars David Keith, Robert Prosky, Judge Reinhold, Bill Paxton, William Hope, Michael Biehn, and Olympic boxer Mark Breland.
The Lords of Discipline is a 1983 American film based on the novel by Pat Conroy and directed by Franc Roddam.
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