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Closed Caption; Commentary by director Harold Becker; Sounding the Call to Arms: Mobilizing the Taps Generation featurette; The Bugler's Cry: The Origins of Playing "Taps" featurette; TV spots
Full Product DetailsDisc #1 -- Taps
1. Main Titles [1:34]
2. Bunker Hill Academy [1:52]
3. The Cadets [3:15]
4. General Bache [2:37]
5. The New Cadet Major [4:15]
6. Honored by His Peers [1:31]
7. The End of an Era [2:41]
8. The Stroke of a Pen [1:13]
9. The Cadet Ball [6:21]
10. Death of a Civilian [4:53]
11. Closed Down [1:46]
12. The Six O'Clock News [1:13]
13. Taking a Stand [1:21]
14. Trouble in Town [3:55]
15. Behaving Like Soldiers [2:21]
16. Stalemate [1:49]
17. My Old Man [:29]
18. The Parents Delegation [3:09]
19. One Step Forward [2:28]
20. Men Under Pressure [3:31]
21. Night Watch [2:33]
22. Pleas From Mom and Dad [3:52]
23. Colonel Kerby [3:06]
24. Dismissed [4:03]
25. No Water [1:33]
26. Dissension in the Ranks [3:31]
27. The Big Guns [2:23]
28. An Accident [2:48]
29. Last Chance [2:15]
30. Taps [:53]
31. Casualties [2:57]
32. Kerby's Ultimatum [4:44]
33. Memories [2:04]
34. At Dawn [3:50]
35. A Fallen Soldier [2:41]
36. End Credits [:37]
Devery Freeman's novel Father Sky was the inspiration for the far-fetched but convincingly acted and directed Taps. When an exclusive military school is threatened with demolition by a rapacious real-estate company, the students, headed by Timothy Hutton, take drastic action. Utilizing every bit of military know-how at their disposal, the boys take over the school, arm themselves to the teeth, and prepare to do battle against the "invading" developers. General George C. Scott, the head of the academy, tries to quell the rebellion, but soon he too is swept up by the students' to-the-death determination when the Army is called in to rout the boys. Whenever the action of Taps begins to flag, we recommend that you keep an eye on the show-stopping performances of Sean Penn (in his movie debut) and Tom Cruise as two of the cadets. Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide