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Overall, 'The Boy with Green Hair' is both an intriguing children fantasy and a powerful anti-war fable, tinged with that childhood innocence that makes every ideal seem so attainable. 14 out of 15 found this helpful.
82% Tomatometer 11 Reviews 57% Audience Score 1,000+ Ratings Peter (Dean Stockwell), an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye (Pat O'Brien) after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war...
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- Pat O'brien
- Joseph Losey
- Drama
The Boy with Green Hair: Directed by Joseph Losey. With Pat O'Brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell. This parable looks at public reaction when the hair of an American war orphan mysteriously turns green.
- (3.3K)
- Comedy, Drama, Family
- Joseph Losey
- 1948-11-27
The Boy with Green Hair is a 1948 American fantasy-drama film in Technicolor directed by Joseph Losey in his feature film directorial debut. [4] [5] It stars Dean Stockwell as Peter, a young war orphan who is subject to ridicule after his hair mysteriously turns green, and is based on the 1946 short story of the same name by Betsy Beaton.
May 10, 2019 · The Boy with Green Hair. Joseph Losey’s 1948 fantasy is both a potent liberal allegory—about the persecution of a child (Dean Stockwell) who looks different from other kids—and an eye ...
- Condé Nast
Young Dean Stockwell shows amazing thought and skill in playing The Boy With the Green Hair -- shown off admirably in the film's Technicolor. Full Review | Jul 21, 2021
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When the boy meets children from war-orphan posters in a dream scene in the woods, and returns to annoy the townsfolk with the message that war is very bad – his green hair has thus acquired...
