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List Price: $19.98 Our Price: $17.99 You Save: $1.99 Features • Collector's Edition • Color • NTSC In Theaters : 16 November, 1948 DVD Release : 16 November, 1948 |
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| The Boy With Green Hair is considered to be an important film for child-star fans because it features Dean Stockwell in the title role. Peter Fry is a war orphan and has lived with many different family members over the years. He finally settles in with Gramp (Pat O'Brien), a former actor who makes Peter feel the most comfortable. He goes to school and lives a normal life, until one day he wakes up and finds that his hair has turned green. The children like his hair, but their parents are afraid and demand that he cut it off. Peter wants to keep it, though, because he feels it is a symbol for war orphans everywhere.
The characters in this film are not well developed aside from Gramp which makes it hard to sympathize with them at all. Peter is a typical child, but his revelation about what his hair symbolizes seems forced and silly. It doesn't help that he turns to the camera and delivers an "inspirational" speech; the film makers were trying too hard to get their point across. Usually classic Hollywood can get it right, but this film is definitely an exception. It could have been a powerful film, but it crossed the fine line between hokum and sentiment. |
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