Word: radnitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...small change, they dress shoddy actors in seedy costumes, bloat fairy tales to 1½-hour proportions and ship the results to Saturday matinees. In the throng, however, there are a few legitimate producers whose gold is all but lost in the straw. The best of them is Robert Radnitz, 44, whose movies-A Dog of Flanders, Island of the Blue Dolphins, And Now Miguel-are the sleepers of the children's film industry. All have won prizes, all are marked by a happy lack of condescension...
...Side of the Mountain, Radnitz claims, is intended for the whole family. But its main appeal is obviously to the intelligent preteenager interested in natural history. Sam (Teddy Eccles) is a Canadian youth who decides that four walls and two parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...
...producer of children's films, Joseph Strick, 45, is less skilled than Radnitz. His prior movies have been fare that kids could scarcely see, much less comprehend: Ulysses, The Balcony, The Savage Eye. In Ring of Bright Water, he reverses himself and locks out the adults with a tale that makes The Three Bears seem Byzantine...
...there are many film makers who believe that international festival com petition is the only way that the U.S. cinema can hope to improve its quality. Hollywood Producer Robert Radnitz, who was a panel member at last year's New York Festival, thought it was "a great festival. The most exciting thing was the number of young people who came, despite the high ticket prices. If kids will go out and pay that much money to see foreign films, it drives another nail into the coffin of the Hollywood syndrome of catering to the twelve-year-old mind that...
...MIGUEL. Producer Robert Radnitz (Misty, Island of the Blue Dolphins) scores again with the sturdy tale of a Mexican-American lad (Pat Cardi) growing up on a sheep ranch...