what happened to victor parmalee and the boy on the dolphin at the end of the movie?
Sophia explodes beautifully!
Certainly script writers Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor have done the all-time they could to arrange a fairly equal balance of nature and Sophia...
The Greek Island of Hydra is 1 of the most cosmopolitan points in the Mediterranean, a dream world with a unique beauty... It appears like a huge dry rock rising out the sea with its tiled houses and buildings scaling the sharp terrain, one on top of the other, starting from the quay and reaching up to the tops of the hill, while the victorious colour scheme is Aegean (white green and vivid blue), and the weather is Adriatic... The pretty port looks extremely picturesque, dramatically beautiful...
Director Jean Negulesco has thrown all the grandeur and loveliness of these features upon the heart-filling CinemaScope screen... Just Alan Ladd's and the audience's attention is directed to Sophia who explodes beautifully into warmth, glamor, beauty and sex activity, through frequent and liberal posing of her in full and meaning views... Her statuesque beauty reminds us what the Mediterranean can offer in grace and richness...
Diving in the Aegean Sea for sponges off Hydra, peasant girl Phaedra (Sophia Loren) discovers a golden statue of a boy riding a bronze dolphin, chained to the trunk framework of a wrecked ship... Together with Rhif (Jorge Mistral) her lazy fisherman lover, Niko (Piero Giagnoni) her piffling brother and an English language doctor Hawkins (Laurence Naismith), she tries to look for a rich American sponsor for the raising of the sunken statue...
She had 2 alternatives: Dr. Jim Calder (Alan Ladd), a U.S archeologist, devoted to return lost artifacts of great value to their dwelling house countries, and Victor Parmalee (Clifton Webb), an ambitious art collector, prepared to pay highly price to absurd his insatiable desire for ancient treasures...
With hit photography of the Greek island, the sparkling body of water, and the Parthenon, this entertaining film, with squeamish music by Takes Morakes, is another instance of cinema ingenuity...
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Sophia!
The best alibi to sentry again this long forgotten film of the late 50s is the exquisite and gorgeous Sophia Loren. What a beautiful woman; a sight for sore eyes indeed!
The Jean Negulesco film shows its age. This film has a lilliputian scrap of gamble, love story, suspense with the backdrop of Hydra, one of the most enchanting Aegean islands. The flick might look a flake outdated to today'south audiences, only it's fun to sentinel Alan Ladd and Clifton Webb doing their best out of roles that don't require much interim. Sophia Loren is perfect as the sponge fisher who discovers a hidden treasure.
I saw this movie recently on cablevision. Information technology was a trip to another, more innocent era.
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Sophia In A Wet Dress
Male child On A Dolphin concerns a statue that is just that which is plant by lovely sponge diver Sophia Loren in the Aegean Sea. She's got two people interested in information technology, archaeologist Alan Ladd working for the Greek government and antiquity collector Clifton Webb.
Sophia likes Ladd, but Webb's got the big drachmas. I'll leave it to the experienced movie goer to effigy out who she winds up with.
The film was shot in the Grecian Isles it really was her first big exposure (literally) to American audiences in an American moving picture. Originally this was to star Robert Mitchum with her, just he backed out and Ladd was substituted.
Ladd had a miserable fourth dimension during this motion-picture show because of the rough humor of the Greek coiffure regarding his height. Sophia towered over him and 20th Century Flim-flam did the usual compensating that Paramount and Warner Brothers did with him that involved Sophia in a trench or Ladd on a box. Alan Ladd was ane of the nicest of Hollywood stars, but a sensitive soul and the barbs wounded him deeply.
The colour cinematography in Greece is first rate, you tin can't photograph a bad color moving-picture show in that location. Sophia Loren looks real expert wet or dry. Reason enough to see Boy On A Dolphin.
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Unusual cast; very entertaining
I saw this movie on network TV quondam in the late 1960s. It seems to NEVER be shown. I found it very involving and suspenseful (even with many commercial interruptions). Sophia Loren never looked improve, Alan Ladd makes a skillful foil for Clifton Webb'due south dry wit. Beautiful location photography. Worth waiting for; a highly watchable film.
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The immortal Sophia, rising from the sea!
Ah, aye! Who can forget that image of Sophia, climbing aboard a small-scale fishing vessel, her peasant blouse opulently revealing why she commencement became a movie star? 20th-Century Fox wisely featured a snippet of that scene in "Previews of Coming Attractions" for this film when it was commencement being distributed. The production itself benefits hugely from the gorgeous locations of its story and the Hollywood professionalism of anybody assigned to it. All that, plus Julie London lending her breathy vocalizing to the lovely title song.
One of the things I recall virtually information technology was Sophia's retort when asked how much would exist sufficient compensation for the ancient treasure she'd plant under the Aegean. "For me, plenty of money is enough!" How assuredly she delivered that line and how lucky nosotros've been e'er since that her stardom led to many better displays of her talents.
Where, oh! where is the DVD (CinemaScope ratio preserved, s'il vous plait!) of this sunken treasure?
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An exotic on-location underwater thriller!
This film was one of 1957's meridian grossers mainly due to the fact that in those years the public wanted exotic European location shooting and the film certainly does a good job of showing Greece and Sophia Loren who is ravishing.The story is a thriller.Alan Ladd plays a archaeologist ,Sophia a poor sponge diver and Clifton Webb an unscrupulous collector of fine art.The plot is not really that important.What counts is the scenery and Sophia.Alan Ladd whom I take always considered every bit a very proficient player, but underrated by critics does a skilful job,like always(he ever tried his best), all the more so that his partner was really very much taller than him and he suffered from that.I don't empathize why everybody made so much fuss about Alan Ladd'due south size.He was just as short or tall as Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney or even George Raft.The film is very enjoyable.
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Wet T-shirt Contests? - Lookout man Sophia Loren in this instead!
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Some films are set up in very gritty surroundings such as docks or decayed warehouses, others accept period settings, or need to support a sci-fi story-line. But when it is possible, most films volition increase their appeal if they can provide bonny screen images to aid tide viewers over occasional dull spots. Such eye processed may exist land or marine scenery, architecture or people. Used at the correct time, whatever of then can provide boosted viewer enjoyment. Boy on a Dolphin, based on a novel by David Divine, is one of many films (among them Venus, Summer Lovers, and Aphrodite) which have used the magnificent scenery of the Greek Islands for this purpose. It was made by the Fox studios on location on Hydra Island in Hellenic republic, and is an adventure moving-picture show well-nigh an impoverished Greek scuba diver, very vigorously played past a young Sophia Loren, who discovers a valuable classical statue she wants to see accepted as a national treasure rather than simply sold on the open market. It was filmed in colour and provides some delightful images of the scenery in this lovely office of the world; just, although there was an extremely vigorous and fiery functioning by Sophia Loren, the interim of the Northward American cast members unfortunately left much to be desired and the overall impression afterward watching this movie is somewhat patchy. This is sometimes blamed on the height disparity betwixt the rather short Alan Ladd, who plays the curator of 1 of the museums of antiquity in Athens and the unusually alpine Sophia Loren. It has been suggested that Robert Mitchum who was originally considered for the role of the museum curator, might have helped create a picture which would wear meliorate. I do non think this is off-white to Director Jean Negulesco who, as I remember information technology, very adequately coped with whatsoever problems this divergence created, and also did a wonderful chore of exploiting the scenic attractions which did then much for this film. His master failure was in melding the contributions of the various cast members into a coherent story with plenty sparkle and life for it to become a classic. However it was one of the height earning films at the time information technology was released, and was also nominated for an Oscar, so it seems likely that both Fox and those involved in making the film would have classed information technology as very successful.
I am a visual person, and maybe appreciate the value of heart processed more many movie-goers, but I would not give this film an IMDb Users rating of more than seven today. I would notwithstanding quickly buy myself a new DVD copy if information technology was available. The VHS tape is no longer listed and I practice feel very strongly that as a re-mastered DVD, the delightful scenery, combined with the important theme about national treasures beingness preserved for the enjoyment of posterity and the great performance past Sophia Loren, would be enough to ensure better sales for it than for many of the other DVD revivals which are existence created in great quantities today. This is my principal reason for calculation these further User Comments now.
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Sophia Loren in all her glory, doted on by erstwhile Clifton Webb and Alan Ladd
Clifton Webb and Alan Ladd are 2 competitive archaeologists in Greece, and when a girl from the islands present them with an opportunity, they get stuck on Sophia Loren more on her findings. They are British and American, one with money, the other without, but Sophia is all Greek, and this movie is all Greece in all its glory, Sophia matching it perfectly, as the best illustration and promotion Hellenic republic could ever get at the time. The colours are glorious, peculiarly the underwater scenes are miraculous in their exploration, reminding of Jacques-Yves Costeau's and Louis Malle's "The Silent Earth" the year before, and the story is likeable enough, with the boy (Sophia's blood brother) acting every bit a deus ex machina, and the dyspeptic md (Laurence Naismith), who actually is the best actor of them all. I saw this picture equally a child and ever wanted to see it again, but I had to wait for threescore years... but what a rewarding fulfillment!
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I of the sexiest stars in film history.
Hugo Friedhofer'due south musical score, the enchanting beauty of Greek islands, and the incredibly luscious Sophia Loren combine to brand this moving picture memorable despite the sparse story.
Alan Ladd steps out of the saddle to play an archaeologist that is determined to preserve Greek treasures for Hellenic republic. Too bad he wasn't effectually to save the Elgin marbles. He teams with Sophia Loren to call up "The Boy on a Dolphin" and kept the evil Clifton Webb (three Oscar nominations) from spiriting it out of the land.
Sophia Loren was only 23 when this pic, which is almost as former as I am, was made. Those who take never seen her in her prime would practice well to see what you fathers lusted later when your female parent wasn't looking. If all you lot've seen is Grumpier Quondam Men, you may wonder what all the fuss was about.
As a bit of trivia, she was required to walk in a trench in this picture in order to give audiences the impression that her diminutive co-star, Alan Ladd, was taller than she.
Not to dismiss Loren, the beauty of the Greek islands where this was motion picture equals her allure to me. A film fabricated in Greece is always worth watching, especially one that shows it before it was ruined past tourism.
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Alan Ladd & Sophia Loren Carmine Hot!
Enjoyed this 1957 picture dealing with a sunken treasure and all kinds of people trying to locate the particular and hid it at the aforementioned time from everyone else involved. This flick was a large hit with Sophia Loren,"Firepower",'79, who was very immature and attractive and gave an outstanding functioning. Alan Ladd, (Dr. James Calder),"Two Years Before The Mast",'46, was playing the game of trying to notice the treasure too, yet, he became romantically involved with Sphia Loren who was very much younger than he was. Clifton Web, "Satan Never Sleeps",'62, gave a keen supporting role equally a rich painter and yacht owner. Enjoyable film to view, specially when two great motion picture stars were starring together.
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Sophia Loren
Sophia Loren is the central to this whole film and whatever yous experience with information technology. Her natural acting gifts, screen presence, beauty and overall pulchritude are remarkable. View information technology to feel the miracle of Sophia. Everything else I am about to write is secondary, simply here y'all are:
The location is attractive as is the lovely theme song. Clifton Webb is notable of course. The story is sort of "An American sojourns in Greece" with prissy scenery and water and a cute kid. Its inoffensive and OK 1950'south fare.
As for Ladd, he is giving his competent leading man performance that he did on a sort of standard basis, e'er in his quiet underplayed style. He's acceptable.
Ladd was taller than Robinson, Cagney and numerous others. Paul Newman was often unfairly called "short". Ingrid Bergman was an inch taller than Bogart yet who taunts Bogart near "Casablanca"? Here are the two real problems :
(i)- Sophia is a tall adult female, taller than her own hubby Carlo Ponti, and she towers over many male actors in most of her movies. She is a half inch taller than was Humphrey Bogart (she never made a pic with him so nosotros don't know if he would have stood on a box).
(2)- Sophia was half Ladd'due south age! The trouble in this film is mostly the tremendous historic period departure betwixt an older, declining leading man and a vigorous, very immature beginner actress.
"Taunts" of Ladd'south elevation then and now are missing the signal: I believe that the veteran and savvy Ladd probably was rather disinterested as he realized something was awkward here merely not height. He was wondering "what am I doing here in these scenes with this immature chick half my age?" The post-obit yr Ladd made a film with 41-year old leading lady Olivia DeHavilland and it worked.
So these are my theories but delight keep them in perspective. "Boy on a Dolphin" is all about Sophia and all this other stuff is really only pocket-size details.
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Gorgeous Sophia in Greek lord's day, surf, and intrigue.
I saw this movie in the theater when it first came out and so again, years later on t.5. I had the skilful fortune to tape it onto video every bit I don't think it can be institute in any video stores. I really enjoy this motion picture every bit the story is engaging and the location shots are beautiful. Sophia Loren does a fantastic job of portraying a vibrant, headstrong, passionate woman on a mission. I've always liked Clifton Webb and thought he did a typically tight, professional plough as an arrogant, proud art dealer immersed in his own inflated sense of superiority and worldliness. Alan Ladd as Dr. Caulder of the museum in Athens is the low point for me as I never institute him to be a particularly good thespian. He does okay in this movie but doesn't actually fill the screen with corking charisma. The soundtrack and the title song are fabulous - at times lilting, haunting, and fun. I find myself bustling the title theme for hours after watching the movie. How I oft know whether I like a flick or not is if I want to bound into the story and "be there". I definitely would want to "be there".
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Pretty dull little tale salvaged only by Sophia Loren's cleavage
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This is an amazingly lifeless film despite it being filmed in Greece and being Sophia Loren's first American moving picture. While the Greek scenery is lovely, it'southward obvious that the biggest reason they chose Ms. Loren for the film was because of her aplenty breasts. Throughout the movie, but specially in the first diving scene, they are featured very prominently and it's a very risqué piece of pic work for the 1950s (sort of like the motion picture THE DEEP in the 1970s). And, unfortunately, she is given a role that is very inconsistent and not particularly likable. Much of the flick concerns her wanting to assistance steal a valuable aboriginal statue she accidentally discovered while sponge diving. She is, through much of the motion-picture show, amoral and self-centered. And, not very assuredly, at the end, she falls for Ladd and does the correct matter with the statue! Predictable merely as well a bit ridiculous.
At present to make things worse, some boob had the bright idea of pairing Loren with Alan Ladd--ane of the shortest leading men of all time and about iv inches shorter than her. This meant they had to exercise some interesting camera-work so she wouldn't tower above him. In add-on, their chemical science is, at best, tenuous despite this being a love story. At that place just doesn't seem to be whatever "spark" between them. Equally for Ladd, his function is pretty mellow and subdued. Apart from some scuba diving, he just doesn't do all that much in the film. The lesser line for Ladd, Loren and the rest of the characters is that the parts but weren't written all that well and the people (aside from her little blood brother in the pic) weren't very interesting or compelling. A dull time-passer and certainly no indication of the acting ability of either of its stars.
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The statue is gold and statuary...Alan Ladd is wooden
Miscast, misfired take a chance has Sophia Loren playing a Greek skin-diver (!) who comes across the title-named sunken treasure just off the Greek Islands. Before long, two Americans--an archaeologist and a wealthy art collector--are vying for the prize, and Loren finds herself playing both sides: ane man for the coin, the other man for dear. Rarely take I seen a motion-picture show then full of pretty ambiance and yet then expressionless at its core. The music and locations--also as Sophia'due south figure--are all gorgeous, merely this story is lost at sea. Alan Ladd, looking bloated with gimlet eyes, never connects with mercurial Sophia, who initially is in a abiding rage (she snaps at everybody, fifty-fifty the md taking a boom out of her leg). It'south a shame this film doesn't work, the beauty of the Aegean Body of water is worth beholding. The dim script, from David Divine's novel, needed more bite, and the lazy management needed more zest. Perhaps Sophia should have directed? ** from ****
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Visually stunning underwater scenes
One of those movies from childhood yous remember as an adult, if for nada else and then for the brilliant colors and underwater scenes. Although this may not exist bachelor on DVD every bit nonetheless, information technology'due south a expert candidate because of the Technocolor beauty of it all.
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An Wonderful Take chances Film!
Wow! What a wonderful film! This is the kind of adventure that takes you lot to some other earth, with all the best the picture industry has to offer in every attribute. Bated from the not bad interim, directing, editing, and locations, the photography is most certainly i of the stars of this captivating realm. The magical music score of Hugo Friedhofer is haunting and lingers in the mind long later the picture. In fact, I bought the film soundtrack years ago and nevertheless love it today! I plant a source on the Internet to gild a DVD of this classic adventure and urge film lovers take a ride.
Enjoy!
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Clifton Webb'due south Final (and Luckiest) Bad Guy
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An average adventure motion-picture show, it is piece of cake to say what is skillful nigh Boy ON A DOLPHIN: the scenery of Greece is wonderful, the music and trip the light fantastic toe numbers interesting (the first Greek dances I suspect in a major product pic prior to NEVER ON Lord's day), and the pleasures of looking at the young, vibrant Sophia Loren. They are sufficient to brand the moving picture a "v" out of "10". Dragging information technology down a bit is casting Alan Ladd as the hero archeologist - he speaks his lines okay, but he was beginning to look a lilliputian puffy in the confront (it is non the Ladd of THIS GUN FOR HIRE or 2 YEARS BEFORE THE MAST or THE BLUE DAHLIA). Merely pushing it upwardly to a "7" is Clifton Webb. More about that afterwards.
Sophia is a sponge diver, and has accidentally located the wreckage of a two,000 yr onetime wreck which entered myth because it had a the statue of a male child (made out of solid aureate) on peak of a bronze dolphin. Ladd is approached by Sophia about showing him the treasure for possible financial reward. But Ladd's resources are small (he works for diverse antiquities organizations and national governments, and worked later on World War Ii returning antiquities looted past the Nazis). He arranges to have lunch with her, but she arrives first. She is told they cannot serve her alone, and so she plops herself down next to the side by side bachelor person. It's Webb, who turns out to detect her more interesting than initially when she mentions knowing Ladd and awaiting him. Webb cleverly spirits her out of the restaurant onto his yacht. In that location (keeping her a well treated prisoner) he does a little research on his own, and catches up with Ladd in a Monastic Library. He returns to the yacht. He explains the situation - he will pay much more money for the statue of the boy on the dolphin than Ladd will. Loren agrees to assist him.
So the situation is set up, with Loren working to delay and defeat Ladd's urge to find the statue, and once he goes she'll atomic number 82 Webb to it. But due to unforeseen side problems (Ladd becomes friendly with Loren's child brother Piero Giagnoni) he learns that she visits the yacht, and soon is enlightened he cannot depend on her anymore. But Loren is also finding she is falling for Ladd, and this is get-go to worry not only Webb just Loren's erstwhile fellow Jorge Mistral. Switching to relying on Mistral, Webb prepares to snatch the prize while Ladd is preoccupied. And at that place I volition leave the plot.
After LAURA and THE DARK CORNER, with the possible exception of his ridiculous social snob Eliot Templeton in THE RAZOR'S Border, Clifton Webb played good guys. Usually they were acerbic, similar his Lynn Dais, but usually had his heart in the right place. His Richard Sturgis in TITANIC is confronting his married woman Barbara Stanwyck, merely is in for a severe emotional drubbing from her regarding his son's parentage before he pulls himself together and shows he is heroic at the determination. Nigh of his films were comedies, though TITANIC and CHEAPER By THE DOZEN end with his expiry.
All the same, it is not until he made BOY ON A DOLPHIN that Webb returned to his special brand of sybaritic style villainy. His Mr. Victor Parmelee (as noted on this thread, Webb'southward real concluding name was Parmelee) is a wealthy aesthete who collects art objects, and doesn't care how he gets them. He would take been the sort who would have dealt with Mr. Cathcart in THE Nighttime CORNER, and read Waldo Lydecker's columns in the newspapers. Webb has the aesthete down pat, and in the end you adore his thorough planning and stick-to-it-ness in seeking to circumvent Ladd. But he has one affair going in this film not establish in the before two melodramas. Nobody is killed in BOY ON A DOLPHIN, although 1 suspects that the jealous Mistral would love to do in Ladd. Then at the stop Mr. Parmalee shrugs his shoulders and orders his yacht to Monte Carlo...ho hum...an occasional failure is to exist expected. But he was non arrested (they found nothing to abort him for), and a trip to Monte Carlo is certainly a amend fate at the end of a film than beingness blasted by police bullets in your female person friend's apartment or being shot in the dorsum past your infuriated wife in the basement of your antique store.
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Sophia Loren's dancing partner was Dimitris Pantermarakis ( Dimitris Maras) who is too a Greek role player. The scene was taken in the isle of Hydra. The choreography was from Yannis Flery along with the Dora Stratou's sociology ballet. At the time Dimitris was a reserve officer serving the Greek army. The picture show company requested Dimitris to go back to America with them, unfortunately that was non possible due to his army service. So he lost the opportunity an artist hopes for in a lifetime. The film was top notch. Afterward the army Dimitris Maras Pantermarakis went on a very successful tour all over Europe working in many theaters, TV and motion pictures.
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Daughter in a wet clothes
"Boy on a Dolphin" looks fabulous. It was shot for the most part in the Greek Isles and if always there was a film that did justice to Cinemascope it's this ane.
It has i of the almost beautiful music scores for a flick ever. It also has Clifton Webb, who like George Sanders could lift whatsoever movie he was in. And then it has 22-year-erstwhile Sophia Loren, likewise doing justice to the Cinemascope process in a wet, figure-clinging apparel - diving into the sea, pond under the sea and climbing out of the bounding main - the Production Code people back in Hollywood must take been on holidays when that footage came upward for review.
It stars Alan Ladd. This was toward the end of his career, merely we saw a lot of him in the 1950's. He has an easy assurance here although information technology's sorry watching him knowing that he was gone a few years later aged only fifty.
Sophia Loren plays Phaedra who dives for sponges off her loser boyfriend's boat. When she discovers an ancient statue she tries to change their fortunes by selling information technology to a ruthless collector of antiquities, Victor Parmelee (Clifton Webb). All the same an honest American archaeologist Dr. James Calder (Alan Ladd) steps between Phaedra and Parmelee and also between Phaedra and her boyfriend.
This was Sophia's first movie in English and she plays the whole thing in a fairly shrill style, she is much better when she is diving into, pond under or climbing out of the body of water etc. However, it'due south difficult to have your eyes off her. I kickoff saw this moving picture back in 1957 at age 10, an era when the idea of sexual practice education made everyone feel uncomfortable, simply I'm sure Sophia in this film helped prepare my gender preferences for the future.
The music was by Hugo Friedhofer, and orchestral colour was his forte (he had orchestrated for Steiner and Korngold). He was brilliant at incorporating folk music and instruments into his symphonic scores. Hither he infused his score with Greek music and gave the whole matter an ethereal quality - only heed to the music that accompanies Parmelee on the route to the Metoria Monastery.
Watching "Boy on a Dolphin" is always a happy feel for me, nostalgia plays a part of form, but then again, what'southward not to like?
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Enjoyable melodrama
I like this movie very much fifty-fifty though I don't think its very well washed. The dazzler of Sophia Loren, the star power of Alan Ladd and the location shooting assistance immensely, but the story is flimsy in part. The first shot of Loren getting in a boat is legendary, by now.
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More than fascinating for what happened (or didn't happen) OFF the set!
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Copyright 1957 by 20th Century-Fox Flick Corp. New York opening at the Roxy: 19 April 1957. U.S. release: April 1957. U.M. release: 10 June 1957. Australian release: 4 July 1957. x,000 feet. 111 minutes.
NOTES: Loren'due south first English-language film. Robert Mitchum was originally slated to play the lead, but bowed out "due to other commitments". Ladd was a frantic, terminal-infinitesimal replacement. Although he received an enormous fee, $275,000, Ladd did zero but complain in one case he arrived in Athens and saw the actual set up-up. Of course, he had reason. Sophia Loren was using the film to heave an international reputation as Italy'south new sex symbol, her expansive physique advertised to be bigger and broader and more sumptuous than the considerable attributes of Gina Lollobrigida. Ladd, who stood but about 5 feet, 4 inches, was amazed when he first met Loren; no one had told him he would exist interim with a giantess (albeit she stands only nigh 5 anxiety, 8 inches or then in her blank anxiety). She was nigh a head taller and their love scenes together had to be framed equally special ii-shots. At i indicate, the two walk along a beach. So that Ladd would appear taller, a trench was dug for Loren to walk in, a scene that embarrassed Ladd and made him even more than distant from bandage and coiffure, especially from Loren. Director Negulesco played all the scenes to the Italian sexpot'south advantage, particularly her diving sequences where she grabs the hem of her brim, tucks it betwixt her legs and pins it, then dives into the h2o and emerges dripping wet, her voluptuous heavy-breasted body clearly outlined, a shot that would be used in the picture show's promotion and make Loren the rage non only for this season but for many seasons to come.
Ladd refused to be anything simply polite to Loren who later on claimed he was her simply leading homo who refused to become her friend. When they posed for publicity shots, he was cold and indifferent. To Ladd, Loren was a talent-less opportunist who was using him as a prop to establish a career in American movies. Past moving picture's end, Ladd felt that the motion picture had been a mistake, at to the lowest degree for him, and he blamed the managing director for handing the motion-picture show over to Loren. "Negulesco fell in love with her," he told a columnist, "and so she got all the good closeups."
Negative cost: $3½ million. Worldwide rental gross: approx. $6 million.
VIEWER'S GUIDE: Despite all the sexpot publicity, the contemporary British censor ruled that the flick was suitable for "Universal Exhibition".
COMMENT: Scenery — that'south what BOAD is all well-nigh, principally the scenery provided by Miss Sophia Loren, just likewise the scenery of Greece and the Aegean Isles captured in the on-location CinemaScope photographic camera. The story and the other players take a singled-out 3rd and 4th place to these two prime requisites, at present 1, now the other vying for our attention — Miss Loren wins, rarely was an American picture debut for a European star and so auspicious and never did it completely swamp — aside from the locale — all other aspects of the production.
The other players were doubtless afterwards Negulesco'southward head for at times even the music score seems to get much more than attending than the cast (of course in the TV impress matters are fifty-fifty worse, instead of just existence on the sidelines, now they're ofttimes not in the picture at all! The cropped impress relentlessly focuses on Miss Loren whom it must be admitted looks terrific and smolders most attractively). Clifton Webb has a few balmy moments in what should have been a tailor-made part; and while Alex Minotis and Laurence Naismith and the lilliputian boy go a chip of an innings, poor old Alan Ladd is allowed to come off 2nd, 3rd or 4th all-time depending on how many other players are with him in a detail scene. The CinemaScope camera doesn't treat his age too kindly either, whereas it seems to exist positively in love with Miss Loren.
Aside from his obvious dear for the landscape and Loren, Negulesco's direction is rather loose and light-handed, and, whilst unobtrusive, also dramatically ineffective. Of grade the script does non present much in the mode of conflict and there is very little activity or dramatic tension. The initial premise of the plot has hope, but it but ambles its way from one one-half-hearted and/or perfunctory state of affairs to another and so reaches a predictable simply dramatically unsatisfying determination.
OTHER VIEWS: Ladd makes a late entrance and in the meantime we are treated to some of the nigh wearisome dialogue and hammiest acting. Loren screeches away like a fishwife and her supporting players do little to help. Ladd doesn't ameliorate things much either and his fans are going to be disappointed by the point lack of activity in the moving picture. Fifty-fifty the promised pocketknife fight doesn't materialize. All Mr. Ladd tackles is Miss Loren — right at the fade-out. Only Clifton Webb (who is given some of his usual sardonic dialogue) and the Greek locations emerge with any award from what is otherwise a nearly pedestrianly directed and boringly devised piece of old rubbish. The music score deserves a better film. Even Athens looks unattractive. As for Miss Loren... well fifty-fifty her fans will surely cringe one time she opens her rima oris! — JHR writing as George Addison.
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A most-perfect alloy of adventure, beauty & romance and scenery!
In 1 of my primeval cinematic moving picture memories; this big screen epic captured me and my imagination with the theme of marine achaeology; the beauty of the sea; and the romance of Sophia Loren & Allan Ladd.
Some of the finest early location colour shotting produced past Hollywood; and a want to re-see information technology thwarts what would be a fine re-make opportunity!
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Provocative for its fourth dimension!!
Recently saw this on cable, and was surprised to learn that it was released in 1957. I don't believe there's another mainstream film from the '50s that shows a major actress wearing nothing only a Wet-T? Sophia'southward bare bust could clearly be seen through her clothing. This film likewise appears to have been the forerunner for "The Deep." While a tad tiresome-moving, the scenery and heart-processed more than makes upwards for it. -D, NYC "Thousands & thousands of details go into the making of a film. It is the sum full of all these things that either makes a great picture show or destroys it" - David O. SELZNICK (ane of the founding Jewih fathers of Hollywood - Paramount/RKO/MGM/Selznick International)
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Generally Underwater.
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Nobody had Sophia'south sensual allure in the 1950s, with her slanted, feline, glistening eyes and that plump and pendulous lower lip. In 1 scene she emerges from the sea in a clinging wet dress, an image of carnality that would take set Botticelli's heed awhirl.
I can't remember of too many other reasons to exit of your style and watch this fagged-out Hollywood production. The story has legitimate archeologist Alan Ladd pitted confronting flippant and very wealthy Clifton Webb, stealer of aboriginal artifacts, both in pursuit of a 2,000-year-quondam statue of a boy riding a dolphin. It's underwater somewhere off a Greek isle.
Loren is defenseless between the duplicitous Webb and the principled Ladd. She'south just a poor Greek peasant girl who dives for ocean shells. She hasn't got ii drachmae to rub together, not that she needs two more of annihilation. She's a stunning brute and given the right part can plough in an impressive performance, as she did in "Two Women." Unfortunately, this isn't the correct part for whatsoever of the principals. Loren is but too elegant and dignified to stomp her anxiety and scream and snatch money out of somebody's hand. Someone made the same casting error in "Fable of the Lost." Clifton Webb had, by this time, gotten the role of snobbish esthete down pat. Information technology began with "Laura" and the trajectory never came to earth. His supercilious remarks here aren't witty in any way, just sarcastic.
Ladd was pretty close to the stop of his career. He'd been doing a lot of booze and barbiturates and is puffy and conveys an impression of poor metabolism. At times his voice slurs noticeably.
The whole thing is routine or a scrap below that. The blindingly white, gorgeous islands of the Aegean Bounding main look colorless under a cloudy heaven. The "spontaneous" Greek dancing is as forced as in any theme restaurant full of staged authenticity, and someone has dubbed Loren's phonation equally she sings a song in Greek instead of her native Italian. (Julie London sings the inescapable theme vocal.) The musical score adds picayune. The necessary curly haired heavy who carries the knife is comfortably identified equally Albanian, non Greek. The Greeks were our pals. Republic of albania was a big fan of Red china.
All together, information technology'due south the kind of movie that signaled Hollywood was ready for a cinematic revolution, even if information technology meant turning the American and French revolutions upside-downwards and importing new cinematic techniques from France. Hollywood was becoming a dull vacuum. Enter the nouvelle vague.
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A movie I've never forgotten.
I saw this picture show in information technology's entirety once in the early seventy'due south and a part of it once more in the early ninety'south on AMC. I call back one other time in the late 80's, a friend of mine told me he had just watched a really good pic in the lounge in the barracks we were in at the time. I asked him what is was, and of course he told me it was "Male child on a Dolphin". I really wished that he had told me it was on, I had been wanting to see this motion-picture show again since the early 70'south. Information technology'southward a movie I've always remembered, and would love to be able to encounter it again. I remember Sophia Loren looked beautiful and the scenery and location where the film was made was just as beautiful and information technology was a very entertaining story. This motion picture is on my elevation x list to purchase immediately if information technology is ever released on video or DVD by the studios. Come on studios, release this motion-picture show on DVD so all of united states of america can sit back and relax and bask a really expert movie again.
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