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 enlarge | Director: Joseph Losey
Actors: Pat O'brien, Robert Ryan, Barbara Hale, Dean Stockwell, Richard Lyon
Studio: Terra
Category: DVD
Buy New: £32.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (1 reviews)
Sales Rank: 95826
Format: Colour, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Media: DVD
Running Time: 82 minutes
Number Of Items: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.1 x 5.4 x 0.6
UPC: 684457210320
EAN: 0684457210320
ASIN: B0000E65XP
Release Date: November 4, 2003
Theatrical Release Date: November 16, 1948
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Bizarre "message" film from Joseph Losey November 1, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This strange film is a relic of a peculiar Hollywood genre that flourished briefly just after the Second World War. I don't have a catchy name for the genre; "Hackneyed Homilies for Tolerance and Understanding" is the best I can do. Typically these films were conceived by Red-front writers and producers (e.g., Albert Maltz, Dore Schary) and have more than a whiff of Communist cant about them. Their message is that Prejudice Is Bad, although they are seldom clear about what sort of prejudice they mean. br /br /A good example of this confusion can be found in "Crossfire," a mystery thriller originally about a serviceman who gets picked up by a homosexual and kills him. Alas, the producers didn't want to come out with a plea for homosexual tolerance, so they made the murder victim a Jew instead. The result is a script that makes no sense at all.br /br /Similarly with "The Boy with the Green Hair." A boy's hair turns green, and he is shunned and laughed at by his schoolmates. You might assume this is a bad allegory about race bias, but it's nothing of the sort. The boy's neighbors don't hate the boy, they are just put off, and want him to dye or cut his hair. They fear that his green hair might be contagious. So the boy is depressed and suicidal. But then children from a war-relief poster appear to him in a vision and tell him that the green hair is a badge of courage, or tolerance, or humanity...or something like that. So the boy lets the community shave his head but tells them all that when his hair grows out it will still be green.br /br /What on earth are the scenarist and director trying to tell us? Perhaps green hair is a stand-in for political views that were fashionable during wartime but no longer tolerated post-war--that is, pro-Stalinism. br /br /There are many things to like in this dream-like movie. Nat King Cole sings the theme song, "Nature Boy." Child star Dean Stockwell has the lead, the strangest role he would play till David Lynch put him in "Blue Velvet" four decades later. Director Joseph Losey's knack for portentous atmosphere and dismal fantasy has an early outing in the scenes with the war-poster children, and bears a close resemblance to the high-weirdness we see years later in his mature work ("The Damned," "The Servant," "Accident," "The Go-Between").
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