Roddam and his screenwriters jettison quite a bit of expendable exposition, notably a romantic subplot of dumbfounding dippiness, but they still can't compensate for the fact that Conroy mislaid the central plot element-the struggle to unmask and discredit a secret society of upperclassmen, known as The Ten, who have dedicated their despicable efforts to railroading the first black cadet at Carolina Military Institute out of school.
Pat Conroy's novel "The Lords of Discipline" was anything but a disciplined novel the new film version, directed by Franc Roddam, the British director who made an impressive debut with "Quadrophenia," spares moviegoers a prolonged exposure to Conroy's feverish account of Movies sadism, betrayal and triumphant selfrighteousness in the setting of a Charleston, S.C., military academy in the mid-'60s.
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