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Topic: The Boy With The Green Hair
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Maurice Leakey
Film God
Posts: 5895
From: Bristol. United Kingdom
Registered: Oct 2007
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posted June 05, 2016 03:08 AM
Just been running a 400' digest of Dean Stockwell as "The Boy With The Green Hair". Billed as "A war orphan whose hair mysteriously turns green".
Most Super 8 digests manage to condense the main part of a film's story, but not this one. It does not reveal the truth, although an unfinished letter from his parents is read to him. The letter only makes sense if the viewer knows the story, which he/she doesn't.
Actually, his parents were killed in the London Blitz and when he finally learns the truth that he is a war orphan his hair turns green.
The print, in a white unmarked box, from Bucks Film Labs, Slough, England, is on Fuji stock which has fading colour so the boy's hair never really looks green. There is no indication from which British distributer it came from, but as it was originally RKO, I suspect that it was a Mountain release.
Can any member shed any more light on this digest?
-------------------- Maurice
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