Word: ritchey
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...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 Garland, Bruce Ritchey) are honest and moving...
...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 let him be a baby and specifically hates the psychologist-headmaster (Burt Lancaster) who demands that he grow up. One day a new teacher comes to the school, an amiable but muddled musician (Judy Garland) who represents the common confusions of feeling about defective children. At first she feels revulsion, then...
...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 lives his role with such empathy that most spectators will simply assume he is one of the real defectives. But time and again the real defectives steal the show. At first the spectator can see only their defects, but at last he sees what lies behind the defects: children much like...