Main Cast: James MacArthur, Kim Hunter, James Daly, James Gregory, Whit Bissell
Release Year: 1957
Country: US
Run Time: 84 minutes
Plot
Adapting a made-for-TV play that he had directed for the screen, John Frankenheimer made his feature film debut with this sensitive father-son drama. Tom Ditmar (James Daly) is a movie studio executive who has a strained relationship with his teenaged son Hal (James MacArthur). Hal is arrested after an incident in a movie theater in which he was provoked into slugging the manager, Grubbs (Whit Bissell). Hal is rude to the police officer, Sergeant Shipley (James Gregory). Tom Ditmar gets the charges dropped but doesn't believe his son's story. Hal goes back to talk to Grubbs to try to get him to tell his father what really happened. ~ Michael Betzold, All Movie Guide
Jeff Silver - Jerry; Jack Mullaney - Confused Boy; Eddie Ryder - Man in Theater; Jean Corbett - Girl in Theater; Charles Davis - Detective; Marian Seldes - Mrs. Morse; Terry Kelman - Donald Morse; Edith Evanson - Lotte; Thomas Pittman - Lynn; Howard Price - Doorman; Gary Vinson - Boy in Courtroom
Teenage Hal Ditmar, the son of a wealthy movie producer, gets into an argument in a theater, which ends with Hal hitting the theater manager. Neither the police nor Hal's father believe his claim that he acted in self-defense.
