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6.1/10   41 votes
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Writers:
Edward Anhalt (writer)
Patricia Joudry (play)
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Release Date:
December 1958 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The story of a town with a dirty mind!
Plot:
Will Henderson is the new boy at the high school. He befriends outcast Melinda Grant, whose illegitimacy marks her and her unstable mother... more | add synopsis
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Another forgotten heavy breather from Universal... more (5 total)

Cast

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John Saxon ... Will Henderson
Sandra Dee ... Melinda Grant

Teresa Wright ... Elizabeth Grant
James Whitmore ... Ed Henderson
Luana Patten ... Polly Fisher
Margaret Lindsay ... Dorothy Henderson
Virginia Grey ... Miss Robeson
Jody McCrea ... Bruce Mitchell
Alan Baxter ... Alex Fisher
Hayden Rorke ... Mr. Booth
Dorothy Green ... Laura Fisher
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Teach Me How to Cry (USA) (working title)
The Wonderful Years (UK)
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Runtime:
86 min
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Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono (Westrex Recording System)

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4 out of 5 people found the following review useful.
Another forgotten heavy breather from Universal..., 25 August 2007
6/10
Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Of all the major Hollywood studios, Universal's vault is probably the one most filled with lost artifacts from the 1950s and '60s. If it's shame that's keeping Universal from re-releasing these drive-in classics, they needn't be so worried; there's always appreciative audiences out there for angst-ridden teen tales and heavy-petters like one. Written by Edward Anhalt, an adaptation of the play "Teach Me How To Cry" by Patricia Joudry, and produced by no less than Ross Hunter, the picture stars Sandra Dee as a small town lass with a secret, a very strange mother, and a possible boyfriend in well-meaning John Saxon. Still quite young at this point, Saxon knows instinctively how to work his brooding handsomeness for effect (and it's refreshing to see him using it on a nice-guy role for a change and not as the villain of the piece). The story threads are dated of course, but the look of the film and the tone are both intriguing. Still, the simplicity behind the melodramatics are no longer relevant, which makes the heated clinches all the more amusing. **1/2 from ****

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