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The Webster Boy

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The Webster Boy
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Directed byDon Chaffey
Screenplay byTed Allan
Produced byEmmet Dalton
StarringRichard O'Sullivan
John Cassavetes
Elizabeth Sellars
CinematographyGerald Gibbs
Edited byJohn Trumper
Music byWilfred Josephs
Production
company
Release date
  • 1962 (1962)
Running time
104 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Webster Boy is a 1962 Irish film directed by Don Chaffey and written by Ted Allan and Leo Marks.[1][2][3]

Cast

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Reception

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The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unconvincing and altogether weird, this attempt at a British Frenzy has nothing to recommend it. The dialogue is unspeakable, for one thing, and since the worst of it goes to Geoffrey Bayldon as the psychotic schoolmaster, one can't even judge whether this unusual actor is unusually bad or unusually original, or whether he simply can't help turning nasty whenever he finds himself involved in films like The Webster Boy."[4]

Leslie Halliwell said: "Curious, totally unbelievable melodrama."[5]

References

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  1. ^ "The Webster Boy". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
  2. ^ "The Webster Boy (1961) - Don Chaffey | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
  3. ^ "The Webster Boy (1962)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018.
  4. ^ "The Webster Boy". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 29 (336): 117. 1 January 1962 – via ProQuest.
  5. ^ Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 1098. ISBN 0586088946.
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