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...audience's heart is the back-country girl (Melba Moore) who falls in love with Purlie. Melba Moore is a delightfully innocent minx, a girl who seems to have swallowed joy for breakfast. When she sings, the sun shines in, and when she dances, her feet play truant from the earth...
...taken in), a numbing term for unadoptable children. Me refuses the anesthetic and presents a painful examination of one homeless boy, François (Michel Terrazon). Shifted from institution to foster home, the ten-year-old burns his bridges before he comes to them. He commits petty crimes, plays truant, lies to his many foster parents-all because he is afraid that if they love him he will lose them, as he lost his mother...
Jack Fadden was born in 1899. He was a high-spirited boy who, at times, overstepped a bit. "I always have been rebellious against authority. The truant officer was a regular visitor at our house. In fact, I may have been the original delinquent," he said...
...looking for Francois?" Roland Truffaut asked the truant officer. "Go look for him where he always is-at the movies." Even as a child, Francois Truffaut made cinema his preferred vocation: the life he led up until his first feature was just so much prologue before the credits. The son of a Parisian architect, he had a history of juvenile delinquency and truancy that ended in a short reformatory stretch-an experience that was to become the basis for his first film. As an adolescent film fanatic, he came to the attention of André Bazin, dean of French movie...
CHILDREN'S FILM FESTIVAL (CBS, 4:30-5:30 p.m.). The season's première is Part 1 of Testadirapa, an Italian film about a 19th century youngster who lives an idyllic life until the authorities rule him a truant. Kukla, Fran and Ollie are hosts...