The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan
Synopsis:
Consternation abounds when a war orphan suddenly wakes up with green hair.
Review:
Fairly artificial and didactic fable, with obvious contemporary resonances in the McCarthy witch trials which are more interesting in retrospect than the movie itself. Unfortunately, despite solid work from child actor and director, the overall screen treatment is a misfire, with music and colour too often verging on the saccharine, homogenising the film with generic family fare of the time. It is the lack of surprise that eventually kills it, however.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan
Synopsis:
Consternation abounds when a war orphan suddenly wakes up with green hair.
Review:
Fairly artificial and didactic fable, with obvious contemporary resonances in the McCarthy witch trials which are more interesting in retrospect than the movie itself. Unfortunately, despite solid work from child actor and director, the overall screen treatment is a misfire, with music and colour too often verging on the saccharine, homogenising the film with generic family fare of the time. It is the lack of surprise that eventually kills it, however.
Country: US
Technical: col 82m
Director: Joseph Losey
Cast: Dean Stockwell, Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan
Synopsis:
Consternation abounds when a war orphan suddenly wakes up with green hair.
Review:
Fairly artificial and didactic fable, with obvious contemporary resonances in the McCarthy witch trials which are more interesting in retrospect than the movie itself. Unfortunately, despite solid work from child actor and director, the overall screen treatment is a misfire, with music and colour too often verging on the saccharine, homogenising the film with generic family fare of the time. It is the lack of surprise that eventually kills it, however.