TAPS Trivia

This was Sean Penn's first movie.

The main star Timothy Hutton was first seen during the 80s in "Ordinary People" playing Donald Sutherland's character's son. He also starred in Turk 182, another story where the system crushes someone he loves and respects and he fights back in an unconventional way.

The Superintendant's house is really named "Crossed Sabres" and is also the name for the annual school yearbook.

Taps was filmed at Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne PA during the 1980-1981 school year. All cadets (students) at VFMA had to be an extra. I am driving the fourth Jeep in the beginning parade scene.

The Star Trek episode they are watching in the break room is "Spock's Brain" which originally aired on September 20, 1968; Eight days before I was born. The episode was hated by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy.

Amelia Romano, who played Mrs. Molloy, the housekeeper, taught acting at the 'Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theater' in New York City in the 1970s and 1980s.

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