A Child is Waiting (Blu-ray)
Burt Lancaster & Judy Garland take an untouched theme - and make it touching and unforgettable!
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Blu-ray Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 42 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 24, 2015
- Originally Released: 1963
- Label: KL Studio Classics
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Burt Lancaster & Judy Garland | |
Performer: | Gena Rowlands, Steven Hill, Paul Stewart & Lawrence Tierney | |
Directed by | John Cassavetes | |
Edited by | Gene Fowler, Jr. & Robert C. Jones | |
Screenplay by | Abby Mann | |
Composition by | Ernest Gold | |
Produced by | Stanley Kramer | |
Director of Photography: | Joseph LaShelle |
Entertainment Reviews:
Abby Mann's screenplay avoids both sensationalism and bathos while showing how these unfortunates can be helped and encouraged.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
One should learn a great deal from this picture -- all of which should be helpful and give hope.
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New York Times
Rating: 4/5 --
Garland is moving in rare dramatic role.
Kansas City Kansan
Rating: 3/4 --
This film draws from the social stance of a Stanley Kramer and the institutional approach of a Frederick Wiseman and rises above their judgmental attitudes to produce a wonderfully provocative and sympathetic film.
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TV Guide
Rating: C+ --
John Cassavetes's attempt at commercial cinema is uncharacteristically conventional and sentimental melodrama, but it contains some emotional sequences between Judy Garland and the mentally challenged children.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Flawed but fascinating.
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Time Out
Rating: B --
The film ran into trouble with Cassavetes's attempt to bring his unconventional improvisational style to the shoot.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Product Description:
John Cassavetes's second effort as a studio director is an engrossing, sobering exposé of society's cruel prejudice toward children afflicted with mental retardation; the film focuses on an institution for those with Down's syndrome. A young boy, Reuben Widdicombe (Bruce Ritchey), arrives at the same time as Jean Hansen (Judy Garland), an inexperienced city transplant who has decided that she wants to help children. Immediately Reuben latches on to her, to the dismay of Dr. Matthew Clark (Burt Lancaster), the head of the institution. He feels that Jean's affections for Reuben will disturb the other children, prompting him to separate the pair. Convinced that a reunion with Reuben's parents (Gena Rowlands and Steven Hill) is important for the boy's mental health, Jean confronts them on this issue. Cassavetes stunningly uses actual disabled children to convey the reality of mental retardation, which gives the film a level of humanity and depth that actors could not re-create. He combines this with the performances of professionals--notably Lancaster and G
arland--in this unflinching drama that resonates long after the final credits have rolled.
arland--in this unflinching drama that resonates long after the final credits have rolled.