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Blue Dolphins was made by a team (Producer Robert Radnitz, Director James Clark, Scriptwriter Ted Sherdeman) that in recent years has turned out two other children's classics: A Dog of Flanders (1959) and Misty (1961). In all three pictures Radnitz & Co. have provided sentiment without sentimentality and a moral without a lecture. This time they also provide some smashing scenery-the Anchor Bay country of northern California-without too pointedly stopping to stare at it. And they provide two remarkably attractive performers. Celia Kaye, in her first film, makes the most charming Indian maiden since pretty Red Wing...
Responsible for dreaming up Latitude Zero is a thin, bespectacled wag named Ted Elton Sherdeman, whose wife, a veteran radio actress, assists him. Nobody is more amused by Latitude Zero than Ted Sherdeman. During rehearsals, which are gagged up to the limit by the cast, he sits amiably giggling at his delirious brain child. He is fond of such tricks as introducing a kind of Latin double-talk for his eerier characters. Sample: Fora consumatio est ramus malin rite confedo saluero. The show was put on a coast-to-coast hookup after 17 weeks on a local circuit...
...long ago Mr. Sherdeman was called by an indignant mother who denounced him for putting her eight-year-old child into hysterics. He asked to talk to the moppet, soothed the child by telling her Latitude Zero was not really true. Then he suggested to the mother that she had only to turn a small knob on the radio to keep her child from getting overwrought. "Oh, sure," the mother said, "but how am I going to hear it then...
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