Beta Delta Gamma story
Mark and Alan are frat boys. During a party at a beachfront frat house, Mark challenges Alan to a drinking contest. Alan drinks a full pitcher of beer, but Mark refuses to do the same. Alan becomes angry, but he and Mark eventually pass out. Alan's frat brothers decide to play a joke on him by injecting Mark with a substance to make him appear dead. They place a bloody weapon in Alan's hand, hoping that when he wakes up he'll think he killed Mark. The pranks goes off according to plan until Alan decides to cover up the "murder". He buries Mark's body on the beach. When the prank is revealed to him, he desperately returns to the beach. Unfortunately the high tide has washed away all traces of Mark's grave. Directed by: Alan Crosland, Jr. Story by: Calvin Clements.
7 total · 5 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| friendship | major | The story concerned the turbulent friendships of a bunch of frat-boys and -girls. |
| ironic twist of fate | major | The story ended with the twist that Mark perhaps unwittingly killed Alan in trying to dispose of what he thought was Alan's corpse. |
| murder | major | Mark thought he had murdered Alan, and in the end perhaps he had albeit in a different way than he imagined. |
| practical joking | major | The plot tuns on a blacked out Alan being tricked by his frat brother into thinking that he'd murdered a friend in a drunken rage. |
| what it is like in university | major | The viewer is shown the drunken antics that went down at the titular, beachfront Beta Delta Gamma frat house on the last day of the semester. |
| obstruction of justice | minor | Mark attempted to cover up the murder he had not, yet thought he had, committed. |
| substance intoxication | minor | The story concerned the aftermath of a drinking contest in the titular Beta Delta Gamma frat house. |