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Release Date: 1948 Duration: 65 min Cast: Gary Merrill, Estelle Evans, Paul Baucum, Clarence Cooper, Donald Thompson, Sadie Stockton Categories: Movies, Drama, Documentary The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill. In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly: The still photographer Helen Levitt was one of the film's... MORE The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill. In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly: The still photographer Helen Levitt was one of the film's cinematographers and writers, along with the painter Janice Loeb. The neoclassical composer Ulysses Kay wrote the score for the film. The film's three writers - Meyers, Loeb, and Levitt - were nominated for the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Academy Award; the film itself was also nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. The National Board of Review named The Quiet One the second best film of 1949. LESS |
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The Quiet One This film uses some documentary footage to tell the story of an alienated black boy in Harlem whose inhospitable environment leads him down the path to delinquency. With no other options, he is sent to the Wiltwyck School for rehabilitation, where a psychiatrist and counselor tries to get him overcome his fear and angry to get on the right path to a better life. From: openflix Views: 5481 10 ratings Time: 01:03:57 More in Film & Animation

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