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The Young Stranger [DVD] [1957]
 
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The Young Stranger [DVD] [1957]

DVD ~ James MacArthur
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  • Actors: James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Gregory, Whit Bissell
  • Directors: John Frankenheimer
  • Writers: Robert Dozier
  • Producers: Stuart Millar
  • Format: Black & White, PAL
  • Language English
  • Subtitles: English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: U
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 30 Jun 2003
  • Run Time: 84 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • ASIN: B00009PAY5
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 59,852 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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A story of teenage tearing-away in 1950s America, The Young Stranger fails to make a serious, gripping narrative of the events that follow the somewhat innocuous pivotal moment when 16-year-old Harold "Hal" Ditmar (James MacArthur) punches a cinema manager. Adapted from a TV play and released two years after the benchmark for delinquency movies, Rebel Without a Cause, it has none of that film's raw urgency, seeming staid and inconsequential in comparison.

The primary problem is that Hal makes an unconvincing hoodlum. His misdemeanour is less an act of rebellion than a brief misunderstanding. Far from articulating the angst of a generation, his angry tirades against his parents (Kim Hunter and James Daly) and the police set him apart from his peers and feel more like the self-pitying whines of a privileged individual. This sensation is further exacerbated by the fact that all of his problems are swiftly resolved in an all-too-neat ending. Still, The Young Stranger is an interesting period piece, not least for an amusingly tame car chase from first-time feature director John Frankenheimer. --Paul Philpott

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The Young Stranger was one of the best teen movies that followed on from the success of Rebel Without a Cause. Starring James MacArthur The Young Stranger is released for the first time ever on DVD. A very young MacArthur excels as troubled teen Hal Ditmar. Ditmar is the son of a wealthy movie producer (James Daly) and his wife (Kim Hunter). One evening, an argument at a theatre between Hal and the theatre manager turns into a fight, and no one, not even his father, believes his actions were justified. Its up to his mother to try and bridge the gap between father and son, and help them to understand each other.

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4.0 out of 5 stars The mercurial mastery of a complex supporting role, 28 Sep 2005
One of the earlier John Frankenheimer efforts that is not without its merits as a film adaptation of the teleplay "Deal a Blow". For the only stand-out supporting role
that lingers in the mind, director Frankenheimer cast veteran character actor Whit Bissell, who had essayed the same role in the television version. One can see why. The technical sureness in his portrayal of an officious, haughty theater manager steals the thunder right out from under the domestic, and somewhat dated and quotidian, "sturm and drang" teenage turmoil preoccupying a young James MacArthur and his parents, James Daly and Kim Hunter. Frankenheimer was to cast Mr. Bissell a number of times in later years and one can only imagine that when it came time to do "The Young Stranger" as a film, the director felt no other actor could match Mr. Bissell's skill in the same role in the earlier television version. One can also only imagine that Mr. Bissell's scene-stealing, complex, and actually sly incarnation of the character, one that is subversively programmatic without really being so, was on Frankenheimer's mind when he cast him almost a decade later as the duplicitous Senator Prentice in Seven Days in May. A wonderfully unlikable performance, as skillfully deceptive, resonant and memorable in its own way as the dramaturgy and the other performances here may seem somewhat unmemorable and dated in their own way.
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