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Jack Garfein (b. 1930) was a longtime writer, director, teacher, and producer of live theater, active in the Actors Studio. But he helmed two movies—both of them electrifying works that tested the limits of screen censorship. (We show both in January.) Garfein’s first film The Strange One stars Ben Gazzara (in his screen debut) as a sadistic, sociopathic student leader at a Southern military academy. There he engineers the expulsion of a prominent underclass cadet during a hazing ritual. The movie’s homoerotic subtext was groundbreaking. With George Peppard. Print from the Sony Pictures studio archive! 100 min.