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Publication date. 1982. Apt Pupil (1982) is a novella by Stephen King subtitled "Summer of Corruption", originally published in the 1982 novella collection Different Seasons with a more dramatic bent, rather than the horror fiction for which King is famous. [ 1 ]Apt Pupil consists of 30 chapters, many of which are headed by a month.
Apt Pupil is a 1998 American thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and starring Ian McKellen and Brad Renfro. It is based on the 1982 novella of the same name by Stephen King . In the 1980s in southern California, high school student Todd Bowden (Renfro) discovers fugitive Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander (McKellen) living in his neighborhood under the pseudonym Arthur Denker.
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Aug 27, 1982 · But he is about to meet a different kind of teacher: Mr. Dussander. Todd knows all about Dussander's dark past. The torture. The death. The decades-old manhunt Dussander has escaped to this day. Yet Todd doesn't want to turn him in. Todd wants to know more. Much more. He is about to learn the real meaning of power—and the seductive lure of evil.
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256. A golden California schoolboy and an old man whose hideous past he uncovers enter into a fateful and chilling mutual parasitism. ( source ) Also appears in: Different Seasons. Apt Pupil / Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Read more.
Aug 27, 1982 · A 13-year-old boy who discovers that the true identity of an old man who lives in his area by the name of Arthur Denker is the Nazi war criminal Kurt Dussander. Banker who did some stock portfolio work for Arthur Denker. German war criminal a/k/a The "Blood Fiend of Patin".
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Brief Synopsis. "Apt Pupil" is set in the fictional town of Santa Rosa, California, during the 1970s. The story revolves around Todd Bowden, a bright and ambitious high school student who stumbles upon the dark secret of his elderly neighbor, Arthur Denker. Todd discovers that Arthur is actually Kurt Dussander, a former Nazi concentration camp ...
