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starring: Marilyn Clark, Brian Corcoran, Frederick Draper, Judy Garland, Steven Hill
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301965873
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301965876
Label: MGM /UA Home Video
Manufacturer: MGM /UA Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM /UA Home Video
Release Date: April 01, 1992
Running Time: 145 minutes
Sales Rank: 7779
Studio: MGM /UA Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: February 13, 1963
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com:
This 1963 film, directed by John Cassavetes, features Judy Garland's last dramatic performance. She plays a teacher at an institution for the retarded who ultimately can't contain her own urge to help, to the detriment of her young charges. Burt Lancaster gives a strong performance as the head of the institution, trying to balance fiscal responsibility and administrative duties with a caring nature. But it's a constant struggle between the urge to do the right thing and the politics of an uncaring state. One of Cassavetes's most mainstream efforts, it includes actual handicapped children as extras, which was considered daring at the time. --Marshall Fine
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - A Wonderful Masterpiece
A very good story for Mature people only recommended. The movie was about mentally retarded kids. If you want to see this movie, you have to take it seriously and understand that some people are bless fortunate than you. And Judy definitely understood her roll in this film, and I wish she was given more offers for roles like this. Because she knew what she was doing when acting in this film.
Rating:  - Some Day A Child Will Not Have to Wait
This is a heartbreaking film on several levels. Director John Cassavetes' film, though flawed over wrangling with Producer Stanley Kramer, is still an effective and moving motion picture about an institution housing and treating retarded children to the full extent of their abilities. One heartbreak is Reuben Widdicombe, the focal child of this film, portrayed brilliantly by Bruce Ritchey who is virtually abandoned by his affluent parents and is effectively on the boarder line of retardation. The ... Read More
Rating: - Emotionally Draining Drama Focuses on the Funding-Challenged Treatment of the Mentally Disabled
What an odd, unexpected movie this is. Stanley Kramer reunited Burt Lancaster and Judy Garland from his 1961 "Judgment at Nuremberg" for this grim near-docudrama about mentally disabled children in a state-run institution. Again working from a script by Abby Mann, Kramer handed over the directorial reins to John Cassavetes in only his third film. Some of Cassavetes' cinema-verité style is on display here, though there are definitely enough soap opera turns to make you realize that this is ultimately ... Read More
Rating: - Judy Garland
One of the greatest moments in cinema history is Judy Garland
leaning into the car to welcome the young boy's arrival.
I cry everytime I see that scene.
She appeared close to tears herself,my god what a performance.
Pure cinema magic.
Yes,it is dated the way they treated folks,but believe it or not,it was accurate for the time !
Rating: - Judy At Her Best!
Why oh why is MGM taking there sweet time releaseing this FABULOUS movie on dvd? The U.S. Version!!Anybody out there with imformation on a release date?I hope its soon!!!! Aloha Craig
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