Main title from Child’s Play (1972) (6)

Child’s Play

(1972)

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| Film | USA | Colour | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 1h 40min |
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| Stars: James Mason, Robert Preston, Beau Bridges | Director: Sidney Lumet

In a Catholic boarding school for boys, an unpopular master is hounded and discredited by another whose motives may be more diabolic

You only lose once

Cast

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British actor James Mason wears a black dinner jacket and bow tie
Jerome Malley
Robert Preston
Joseph Dobbs
Beau Bridges
Paul Reis
Ron Weyand
Father Mozian
Charles White
Father Griffin
David Rounds
Father Penny
Kate Harrington
Mrs Carter
Paul Alessi
Student
Jamie Alexander
Sheppard
Anthony Barletta
Student
Brian Chapin
O’Donnell
Kevin Coupe
Student
Bryant Fraser
Jennings
Mark Hall Haefeli
Wilson
Christopher Hoag
Student
Tom Leopold
Shea
Julius Lo Iacono
McArdle
Christopher Man
Travis
Stephen McLaughlin
Student
Paul O’Keefe
Banks
Robert D Randall
Medley
Robbie Reed
Class President
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Reviews

(1)

Enjoyable overblown melodrama with hints of many nasty goings on, rather spoiled by too much talk and too little local colour. (Halliwell’s)

Pictures

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Main title from Child’s Play (1972) (6)

Production

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Sidney Lumet
Director
David Merrick
Producer
Robert Marasco
Writer (based on the Broadway play by)
Leon Prochnik
Writer (screenplay by)

Companies

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Paramount Pictures
Production company
Cinema International Corporation (CIC)
Distribution company