The Boy with Green Hair
Please don't tell why his hair turned green!
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DVD-R Details
- Rated: Not Rated
- Run Time: 1 hours, 22 minutes
- Video: Black & White
- Encoding: Region 0 (Worldwide)
- Released: December 1, 2009
- Originally Released: 1949
- Label: Warner Archive Collection (MOD)
Performers, Cast and Crew:
| Starring | Pat O'Brien | |
| Performer: | Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell, Richard Lyon, Walter Catlett, Samuel S. Hinds, Regis Toomey, Charles Meredith & David Clarke | |
| Directed by | Joseph Losey | |
| Edited by | Frank Doyle | |
| Screenwriting by | Ben Barzman & Alfred Lewis Levitt | |
| Composition by | Leigh Harline | |
| Produced by | Stephen Ames | |
| Director of Photography: | George Barnes |
Entertainment Reviews:
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Rating: 4/4 --
A precursor to all those radiation fallout monster flicks of the Fifties. A telling cautionary tale worth a watch for far more than the nostalgic factor.
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NewsBlaze
3 stars out of 5 -- Joseph Losey's first movie. Dean Stockwell stars as the war orphan shunned by everyone in his small town...
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Few films so daringly span the local and the universal-or look so ravishing while doing so. Its eerie palette meshes perfectly with Losey's vision of a world out of joint.
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New Yorker
Rating: 3/5 --
A peculiar mixing of bigot-buster and pacifist sensibilities, rendered largely incoherent on account of Howard Hughes' attempts to transform the piece into a pro-war tract. Strange that such a safe-as-milk picture could have caused many of its talents to
Fort Worth Business Press
Rating: C --
Strikes a false note.
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Ozus' World Movie Reviews
Rating: 5/10 --
...a rather simplistic antiwar fantasy that pounds its message into the ground for the last twenty minutes or more.
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Movie Metropolis
Bracingly peculiar
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Description by OLDIES.com:
Made in the hopeful post-World War II era that produced such classics of social conscience as Gentlemen's Agreement, Pinky and Home of the Brave, this provocative film is a fable for its time - and ours. It tells the supernatural-tinged story of an orphan who finds a safe haven in small-town America... until the day his hair turns green. Then the townfolk turn against him, frightened by the change they cannot understand.
A call for tolerance, an inspiring statement that "different" doesn't mean "threatening," The Boy with Green Hair boasts a fine cast (Robert Ryan, Pat O'Brien, Dean Stockwell), a popular theme song ("Nature Boy") and the feature-film debut of director Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go-Between).
Product Description:
Peter Frye, a war orphan whose parents have been killed in an air raid, wakes up one morning to find his hair has turned green. He meets with bitter prejudice and hatred from his fellow citizens, yet continues to express a belief that came to him in a vision: all wars must stop. An interesting parable and social commentary, with another fine performance by Stockwell as the alienated youth.
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- Sales Rank: 20,384
- UPC: 883316225158
- Shipping Weight: 0.27/lbs (approx)
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