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Golden Boy
Butch Jenkins
Compressed version of the Thomas Mann novel. I haven't seen it, but the novel includes several boys during the 19th century.
Complications follow when a lonely boy plays match maker for his single mother. He targets a gadget inventor. Wil Weaton
Paul Kelly
Paul Kelly
Gangster spoof of the depression era with speakeasies and gang wars with all the parts played by kids. Scott Baio, Jody Foster.
Jonathan Crombie.
A reporter's search for a child molester who kidnapped her son is complicated by her alcoholism. The kidnapper is played by of all people Christopher Reeve (aka Supper Man). The boy (Wings Hauser) is about 10 or son and plays his part realistically.
Based on the Stefan Zweig story which also served as the basis for the 1988 version. I'm not sure precisely what the title was.
The movie is set on the eve of World War II. An American boy named Edmund (David Eberts) lives in Vienna. (His father, a diplomat is an American, but his Mother is French. The boy doesn't understand French very well, and that's why his mother and the Count are talking French sometimes.) I'd say he is about 12 or 13 years old. The boy is delicate and is diagnosed as having asthma. The doctor orders him to a sanitarium in the mountains to recuperate. His mother accompanies him and pampers and spoils him. He is cuddled and cared for by his mummy. One reviewer writes, "He is the sort of lad that is dressed up in a sailor suit for dinner," intimating that he is a sissy. A handsome, dashing count appears. The count at first seems to be taken by the boy who is captivated by his war stories. The teasing attention he at first shows toward the boy are so inappropriate that you wonder why the mother would allow it. The Baron is later depicted as befriending him to reach his mother. The boy is terribly hurt and becomes jealous. When the affair between the Baron and his mother is about to be consummated, Edmund has an attack of asthma. He wears a suit with a wide Eton collar and a sailor suit, but I don't know if it is with shorts or longs. Directed by Andrew Birkin,
A group of school children run afoul of thieves on Christmas day.
Buchwacked is a kids film that has appropriated the premises from several other films, including Home Alone, Uncle Buck, and Bad News Bears among others. While not original is a fun piece of mindless entertainment. Scoundrel Max Grabelski who can't stand kids is on the lamb from the cops. Hiding out in a forest, he is forced to take command as a Boy Scout troop. This is another Scout film where the Scouts are not called Scouts and fo not wear the official uniform. In this typical kids film, all kinds of terrible things happen to the bad guys, but no one really gets hurt.
There has never been a big budget film made about Buster Brown, but many low-budget shorts were made and he was a popular film character. Buster Brown was a popular series of films. The films were the Buster Brown Commedies. They were of course based on the enormously successful Buster Brown sunday comics feature. The Buster Brown series of silent two-reel films ran from 1925-29. They were all silent films. The films were produced by Sten Brothers, for Universal.
A Richard Pryor film about a bumbling burglar, a school teacher, and eight children travel cross-country. I like Richard Pryor, but do not think yhis was one of his netter film. The children wear popular early 1980s casual styles.
The Cuban Missile Crisis casts a shadow over the world. "It’ll be a bitter day for this town if the world comes to an end", a woman in Francis Brady’s Irish town laments, But if Planet Earth explodes into a hundred-million, billion, trillion pieces, Francie won’t be surprised one single bit. It’s just like the grownups to do something like that.
Funny, chilling and full of visual flair, The Butcher Boy, the true story of how Francie copes with cruel fate and a dysfunctional homelife. The movie follows the story of Francie and shows him in the fashion for boys clothes in the 60s. Most of the boys wear what appears to be their school clothes all of the time. As he grows up, he tends to wear clothing according to his age. A reader writes, "The movie has a few unusual scenes that will keep you engengrossed and shows the fashion of that era quite well." Another reader writes, "Actually the film is rather sad. He runs away for a few days and when he returns with a present for his mother she has committed suicide and his best friend Jo starts to turn against him in favour of a posh kid whose mother Francie hates--Mrs Nuggent. He trashes her house and is sent away to a Catholic reform school where he sees visions of the Virgin Mary and the priest dresses him in a girls bonnet and because of the fuss that is made he is released. Not long after release his father dies and he tries to cover it up by not telling anyone. The authorities find out. Having lost his best friend to Mrs Nuggents son he kills her in revenge and then tries to kill himself in a house fire.
He is rescued but badly burned. The final scene shows him being released from the mental institution and he has a final talk w! ith the Virgin Mary who tells him to forget everything."
"Burn!" is a movie starring Marlon Brando (1969). It is directed by Gillo Pontecorvo, who produced the notable "The Battle of Algiers". "Burn has great spirations as an epic, but never achieves the potential. Sir William Walker is a British agent sent to the island of Queimada (a fictional Portuguese sugar island of Quemada in the Caribbean) during the mid-19th century in order to organize an uprising of black slaves to overthrow the Portuguese regime. José Dolores becomes the leader of the rebellion. The British want the sugar profits for their own trade. Walker tries to play the plantation owners and slaves off one another. There are realistic depictions of the slaves. Brando seems to confuse his role with Fletcher Christian. The film is actually unfair to the British. If set in the 18th century it woul\d have had more relevence, but they spent much of the 19th century trying to hault the slave trade. One wonders why a movie has not been made on that subject. Actually the British did try to take over Haiti after a lave rebellion there. The Haitian war for independence is another subject never addressed in film. And the true story there is much more dramatic than the muddleled conoction here. We suspect the pretentions of a presenting aee struggle, the producers wanted a story where a white man was the key figure.
The Buttercream Gang is set in a modern small town in Utah. The gang is an old tradition in this town; it was created among its adolescent boys to do good deeds and provide service to community members in need. One service, helping with butter making, earned the gang its name. In the film, orphan Pete Turner (played by Michael D. Weathrred) has left the ButterCreamers to live with his aunt in Chicago.
A HBC reader reports seeing a Spanish movie titled Butterfly (presumably Mariposa in Spanish). It is about a young boy and an old male teacher during the 1930s Civil War era in Spain. Many scenes were in the all boys classroom and all the boys of various ages were wearing short pants and some wore smocks over their shorts. On formal occasions when the boys were attending church they wore short pants suits. This film was very touching and harsh showing what boys, girls, and adults were wearing during that period .
A nostalgic, musical look at small town America set just after World War I. It is based loosely on Booth Tarkington's Penrod books. Penrod is a typical, "all American" boy. The film is enlivened with "Wesley", a boy about 12 or 13 who wears knickers. He is even shown voluntarily putting on his tie which he regularly wears with his knicker suit. He is very nicely played by Billy Gray, the boy in the long-running TV series--"Father Knows Best". The film picks up a few of the Tarkington touches, "Wesley" hates his music lessons and foppish music teacher. He is quick to tell the returning war hero that the piano teacher has been "dating" his sister and is disappointed when the war hero doesn't "bop" him one. Of course "Wesley" gets up to all kinds of wonderfully mischievous behavior in the best tradition of the Penrod character. Juvenile actor Billy Gray began appearing in movie bit parts at age 5. The best-remembered of his 1950s film appearances were in "The Day the Earth Stood Still" (1951) as the inquisitive son of Patricia Neal and "On Moonlight Bay" (1952), another Penrod film.
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