- The Arab among the academy's delinquents is Hash, introduced simply as the son of an Arab sheik; his sheikh parentage is essentially his whole character, the ethnic gag in the platoon of misfit types.
Up the Academy (1980)
film · 1980 film by Robert Downey, Sr.
- Director
- Robert Downey Sr.
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- Warner Bros. Entertainment, Netflix
- Runtime
- 87 min
- Genre
- teen film
- Cast
- Wendell Brown, Ron Leibman, Ralph Macchio, Tom Poston