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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.
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.
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A boy who has lost his parents during WWII while they were trying to help children in London wakes up to find his hair has turned green. As he tries to understand why his hair has turned green, the people his community ostracize him and want him to cut his hair off or dye it.
The Boy With Green Hair is a gentle anti-war fable in which a war orphan (Dean Stockwell) awakens one day to find that his hair has turned green. This makes him an object of ridicule in his small town, where the locals call for the boy's head to be shaved.
The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed, Peter seeks solace in a nearby forest. To his surprise, he finds other orphans in the woods, who encourage him to...
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Nov 22, 2019 · Peter Frye, typical American boy, is orphaned when his parents are caught in the London Blitz. He is not told of their fate, but shuttled from one selfish relative to the next, ending with "Gramp...
Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized.
May 10, 2019 · 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-grabbing...
The Boy with Green Hair. Peter, an orphaned boy, is adopted by Gramp Frye after his parents are killed in Europe while doing war relief work. The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair.
