Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Synopsis:
Smalltown Kansas before the Wall Street Crash, and the son of an oil baron is in love with the daughter of a family of modest means. But dreams of their future happiness reckon without the unhappy consequences of parental meddling and their own sexual frustration.
Review:
Interesting to see a teenage disaffection theme treated so soon after the decade of Rebel without a Cause, but set in the Williams era of tighter, albeir double-standard, morals. This bitter 'they fuck you up your Mum and Dad' tale rather fudges its incontrovertibly unhappy ending, and is rather sluggishly developed, but remains memorable for Natalie Wood's sensual, committed and touching performance.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Synopsis:
Smalltown Kansas before the Wall Street Crash, and the son of an oil baron is in love with the daughter of a family of modest means. But dreams of their future happiness reckon without the unhappy consequences of parental meddling and their own sexual frustration.
Review:
Interesting to see a teenage disaffection theme treated so soon after the decade of Rebel without a Cause, but set in the Williams era of tighter, albeir double-standard, morals. This bitter 'they fuck you up your Mum and Dad' tale rather fudges its incontrovertibly unhappy ending, and is rather sluggishly developed, but remains memorable for Natalie Wood's sensual, committed and touching performance.
Country: US
Technical: col 124m
Director: Elia Kazan
Cast: Natalie Wood, Warren Beatty, Pat Hingle
Synopsis:
Smalltown Kansas before the Wall Street Crash, and the son of an oil baron is in love with the daughter of a family of modest means. But dreams of their future happiness reckon without the unhappy consequences of parental meddling and their own sexual frustration.
Review:
Interesting to see a teenage disaffection theme treated so soon after the decade of Rebel without a Cause, but set in the Williams era of tighter, albeir double-standard, morals. This bitter 'they fuck you up your Mum and Dad' tale rather fudges its incontrovertibly unhappy ending, and is rather sluggishly developed, but remains memorable for Natalie Wood's sensual, committed and touching performance.