Word: boye
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grow older because he has never really grown up, is part of a sharper comic vision. The figure of the general suggests that there would be much less war between men and women were there not so often war in one and the same breast between man and boy...
...volunteer staff began a drive to collect old license plates that it hopes to sell for scrap. But somewhere, insists Mrs. Tunnicliff, the school will find the funds it needs-for the sake of the eleven-year-old with the body of a child of six, for the small boy who developed an emotional trauma from so many beatings at home that he can only say the word "pump," for the 30-year-old spastic who after 17 years of grueling work is at last able to carry on a conversation and to hold down a job as a bookkeeper...
...heads." When a nurse returned to the room, disappointed at having missed the event, the infant obliged with another cry so loud that a doctor put his ear on the mother's abdomen to confirm beyond doubt that the cry came from the womb. The baby (a boy) was delivered safely...
...people who ring true. The film was adapted by Robert Dozier, son of RKO Production Chief William Dozier, from his TV play, Deal a Blow, and is based on an incident that happened to him. Its point turns on the emotional gulf that separates a bright teen-age boy from his successful movie-producer father...
With deceptive casualness and no apparent drama, the scene is set as a perceptive camera follows the boy (James MacArthur) from his high school to his Beverly Hills home, and deftly begins probing into his relationship with his father (James Daly). On the surface, all seems calm enough, but the trouble is deep. It breaks out when the boy is charged with assault and battery after punching a bad-tempered theater manager who was tossing him out for annoying a customer. The boy admits to having been a nuisance, but denies he is an "assaulter and batterer." "It was self...