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3.4/10   116 votes
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Writers:
Gus Edson (writer)
Irwin Hasen (writer)
Release Date:
26 March 1961 (USA) more
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Tagline:
The Kid Who Captured an Army!
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I Remember Dondi more (19 total)

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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Additional Details

Runtime:
99 min
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Fun Stuff

Trivia:
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. more
Quotes:
Dondi: [looking for his GI friends on the streets of New York] Buddies! Where you are? Is me, Dondi! more
Soundtrack:
Meadow in the Sky more

FAQ

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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9 out of 15 people found the following comment useful.
I Remember Dondi, 8 January 2004
8/10
Author: halco from Philly, PA

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.

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