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...sing, dance and act (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, How to Marry a Millionaire). Now seriously concerned about her career, she walked out on her studio a fortnight ago, just before she was to begin work on a musical called Pink Tights, a remake of Betty Grable's Coney Island (1943). The studio suspended her, but two days after the wedding announced that all was forgiven if Marilyn would only come back to work...
Unlike J. D. Salinger's stories, The Little Fugitive deals with a child who is more usual than unique. In the title role, Richie Andruseu, a Brooklyn seven-year-old, believe that he has killed his twelve-year-old brother. To avoid the police, he escapes by subway to coney Island where the mechanics of the plot almost vanish and the delightful swagger and expressions of Andruseu emerge. AT first he saunters along the amusement park pavement in awe--youthfully oblivious to the crime he thinks he has committed. Subtly, the camera follows him through the unsympathetic crowds...
Aware of the pitfalls of this essentially episodic plot, the directors have skillfully developed a pervasive feeling of loneliness in Joey after the allure of the Midway wears off. It is a loneliness imposed by the preoccupied bathers on Coney Island's beach and the silhouetted couple who kiss beneath the boardwalk. Only a pony-ride attendant provides any understanding, and partly because of this new friendship and partly because of a fetish for horses, Joey becomes a familiar figure around the concession. It is this attendant who aids Joey's brother in finding the boy and returning...
...Little Fugitive. The camera follows seven-year-old Richie Andrusco on a wonderfully photogenic lam through Coney Island (TIME...
...Little Fugitive. The camera follows seven-year-old Richie Andrusco on a wonderfully photogenic lam through Coney Island (TIME...