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26 March 1961 (USA)
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The Kid Who Captured an Army!
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | David Janssen | ... | Dealey |
 | Patti Page | ... | Liz |
| Walter Winchell | ... | Himself |
| Mickey Shaughnessy | ... | Sergeant |
| Robert Strauss | ... | Sammy Boy |
| Arnold Stang | ... | Peewee |
| Louis Quinn | ... | Dimmy |
| Gale Gordon | ... | Colonel |
 | Dick Patterson | ... | Perky |
| Susan Kelly | ... | Lt. Calhoun |
| John Melfi | ... | Jo-Jo |
| Bonnie Scott | ... | Gladdy |
| William Wellman Jr. | ... | Ted |
| Nola Thorp | ... | Candy |
| Joan Staley | ... | Sally |
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99 min
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A census taker named Alan Cory spotted David Kory playing in the street, and brought him to the attention of producer-director-writer Albert Zugsmith, who cast the boy in the leading role. Cory was rewarded by being hired as dialogue director for the film.
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Referenced in "Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Horror of Party Beach (#9.17)" (1997)
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Meadow in the Sky
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Did this film make Harry Medved's list of "Fifty Worst Films of All Time"?What dialogue from this film was quoted in Harry Medved's "The Fifty Worst Films of All Time"?
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Discuss this movie with other users on IMDb message board for Dondi (1961)| Recent Posts (updated daily) | User |
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| Not as bad as the reviews made it out to be!! | cryptical70 |
| You oughta be in pictures.... | martanis |
| Whatever happened to David Kory? | miriamwebster |
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I was about about 9 years old when the movie Dondi came to the Fernrock Theater in North Philly, the neighborhood I grew up in. I had been an avid reader of the comic strip (published in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer) since it was first introduced and I suppose because of my age at the time, I related to the title character. All I remember today is that I loved it as a kid and cried like a baby at all the sappy parts.
I am sure if I were to revisit this movie today as a jaded 50-something year old guy, I too might rain harsh words about this movie which has accumulated a whopping 3.3 stars by the reviewers. But I choose to rate it based on the way it made me feel when I was nine, and too naive to know old folks in the year 2004 would consider it a piece of crap. Today our kids grow up much too fast. A movie like Dondi might be just what the doctor ordered for your kids as opposed to say - a prescription for Ritalin.
Dondi gets a 7.5 from me.