The Tenth Level (1975) - Part 13

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Inspired by the Stanley Milgram obedience research, this TV movie chronicles a psychology professor's study to determine why people, such as the Nazi's, were willing to "just follow orders" and do horrible things to others. Professor Stephen Turner leads students to believe that they are applying increasingly painful electric shocks to other subjects when they fail to perform a task correctly, and is alarmed to see how much pain the students can be convinced to inflict "in the name of science."

This 1975 William Shatner made for TV movie was broadcast only a few times on CBS. This may not be Shatner's most famous role, but it is certainly one of his most important. Despite being based on actual events, it was considered too unrealistic and disturbing. CBS shelved the movie and it was never released on video. This recording is a VHS copy so the quality will be poor. However, because it was never released on video you aren't likely to find this anywhere else or a better quality copy.

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• Shatner
• Milgram
• obedience

[Telaara]

Thanks for sharing. I've seen this movie years ago and it has really impressed me. Since then it's my favorite movie with William Shatner. This opinion was based on old memories but that I could refresh now. So sad there is and will no release :-/ It's such an impressive movie.

[wpl955g]

@insdmia Hrm. I think WIkipedia goofed, but not by much. Travolta appeared in The Devil's Rain in '75, with Shatner (hence the Wikipedia confusion, I guess?) and IMDB says *that* was Travolta's first film. You can find Devil's Rain on YouTube - not much of a film, sadly, but it has its moments. Not every day The Shat gets mixed up with Ernest Bognine and Satanism, I'll tell you...

[ZLarryZB]

It's real. It happens everyday in the nation's abortion mills.

[insdmia]

According to Wikipedia, this was John Travolta's first film.  If it is, where is he?

[mindgamesguy]

@efreedee Maybe not so strange, since his grandparents were Jewish immigrants from Austria, Poland, and Hungary. This may have been behind his interest in these topics.

[efreedee]

Interesting that William Shatner was involved in 3 productions on the subject of following orders -- Judgment At Nuremberg, Andersonville Trial and Tenth Level.

[BorgHub]

wow i didn't know captain Kirk visited earth in the past in 1975.

another temporal violation