Been Down So Long It Looks Like Up to Me

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

Cast

Barry Primus

as Gnossos "Paps" Pappadopoulis

David Downing

as Heff

Susan Tyrrell

as Jack

Philip Shafer

as Flip

Bruce Davison

as Fitzgore

Zack Norman

as Mojo

Raúl Juliá

as Juan Carlos Rosenbloom

James Noble

as Father Pettis

Cynthia Harris

as Beth

Linda De Coff

as Kristin

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