Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...well be used as an example of what a good motion picture should be. With restraint and intelligence and great skill, the makers of this film lay bare the relationship between three people: a successful Hollywood producer, his wife, and his teen-age son. The plot focuses on the boy, who gets into trouble with the police by--justifiably--hitting a movie theatre manager. But this is not, and does not pretend to be, another of those romanticised pseudo-Freudian essays on the causes of juvenile delinquency. It is a story of people who are sane and whole...
Like so many other stories about boys growing up, The Young Stranger could easily have slipped into a bog of sentimentality and muddy emotions. But the skill of the actors, of director John Frankenheimer, and particularly of writer Robert Dozier saves the tone of the picture every time. For example, when the mother explains to the boy that his father really does care for him, Dozier finds way to make such a statement fully convincing. "Your father," she says very quietly, "once told me that you are the only thing in the world he really loves...
...give a hint of a promise which may develop in the future. He turns in a mature, sharply delineated performance which demonstrates his intelligence as an observer as well as his technical ability as an actor. Every facial expression and nearly every intonation of voice is appropriate to a boy who is struggling to understand his parents and to be understood...
Radcliffe presidency of the club is also possible. But, Chartrand says, "The job will probably stay in male hands, because its functions are more easily handled by a boy...
...warns that Edwin O'Connor-author of The Last Hurrah, that uproarious and thinly disguised novel about Boston's raffish former Mayor Curley-intends Benjy as a "ferocious fairy tale." But readers can settle back unappre-hensively and enjoy this blithe-spirited, Thurberesque fable of a little boy who is too good for his own good. Along the way, longtime Bachelor O'Connor, 39, gets in some Wylie digs at Mummy. Though the fun sometimes wears thin, Benjy is a striking display of virtuosity, proving that its author can move with literary ease from Curley to curb/locks...