Word: lancasterism
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A Child Is Waiting. What is it like to be a mental defective? What is being done to help such people? This film makes a calm inspection of this major disaster area (there are 5,700,000 defectives in the U.S.) and makes some surprising recommendations. Burt Lancaster, Judy Garland...
A Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and this picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant, but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes), and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy...
A Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., and his picture forces U.S. moviegoers to look them and their problems in the face. The theme is not pleasant but the script (Abby Mann), the direction (John Cassavetes) and the principal performances (Burt Lancaster, Judy...
The story centers on Reuben (Bruce Ritchey), whose parents (Gena Rowlands and Steven Hill) self-indulgently refuse for more than five years to admit that they have produced a moron, and then resentfully abandon him in a state school. Crushed by this rejection, Reuben vaguely longs for the parents who...
The script of A Child Is Waiting is put together with care and conscience, and on the whole Director John Cassavetes (Shadows) does a remarkably mature and measured job of putting it on film. Garland is good, Rowlands and Hill are excellent, Lancaster has never been better, and young Ritchey...