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Celebrated director joseph losey(The Servant,The Go-between)made his debut with this 1948war allegory.but his star,12year-oldDean Stockwell.Was already a veteran actor,having made at least a half-dozen pictures.Ahandsome boy with a sturdy face and dark.brooding eyes,Stockwell would grow into a slightly offeeat character actor in pictures like Paris,Tesas.To live and Die in L.A,Blue Velvet and The Player,earming an Oscar nomination for Married to the Mob.In The Boy with Green Hair,Stockwell plays Peter, a war orphan who suddenly sakes up with a head of green.Everyone teases him until he realizes that that he's become a symbol for war orphans everywhere.(The green represeents spring and rebirth.)Had the film been made today.Peterwould have been interviewed on Oprah and become and intolerable media darling.But through sheer determination,homesty and an early smattering of his famous icy control.Losey avoids sentimentality and crafts his tale into an oddly effective little film.it's of ghostly poster children appear to Peter and explain his purpos in life.The great,underrated Robert Ryan9(The Set-Up,Caught)also appears as a child paychologist who gets the bald Peter to tell his story in fiashback.
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