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Writers:
Darryl Ponicsan (screenplay)
Darryl Ponicsan (novel)
Release Date:
7 April 1974 (Sweden) more
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She's 32. She drinks too much. She hustles pool. She's got a 10-year old mulatto son. She's got a different boyfriend every night. She's in trouble. And he's in love. more
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A lonely Navy sailor falls in love with a hooker and becomes a surrogate father figure for her son during... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 1 win & 5 nominations more
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Great flick more (22 total)
Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| James Caan | ... | John Baggs Jr. | |
| Marsha Mason | ... | Maggie Paul | |
| Kirk Calloway | ... | Doug | |
| Eli Wallach | ... | Lynn Forshay | |
| Burt Young | ... | Master at Arms | |
| Bruno Kirby | ... | Alcott (as Bruce Kirby Jr.) | |
| Allyn Ann McLerie | ... | Miss Watkins | |
| Dabney Coleman | ... | Executive Officer | |
| Fred Sadoff | ... | Dr. Osgood | |
| Allan Arbus | ... | Drunken Sailor | |
| Jon Korkes | ... | Dental Corpsman | |
| Don Calfa | ... | Lewis | |
| Ted D'Arms | ... | Cook | |
| Sally Kirkland | ... | Fleet Chick | |
| Diane Schenker | ... | Nurse |
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117 min
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2.35 : 1 more
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Mono (Westrex Recording System)
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Belgium:KNT | Finland:K-16 | Sweden:15 | USA:R | West Germany:18
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James Caan appeared six years later almost identically in sailors garb for an uncredited cameo in Steven Spielberg's 1941 (1979) as the sailor who throws the first punch in the ballroom fight sequence. more
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Lynn Forshay: Let me give you one piece of advice, one old salt to another... Ah, to hell with advice. more
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Referenced in Empire of Dreams: The Story of the 'Star Wars' Trilogy (2004) (TV) more
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You're So Nice To Be Around more
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When Cinderella Liberty was released I'd only been out of the Navy about a year, so I was automatically biased in favor of it. I happened across the film on AMC this morning, and was pleased to see that it holds up well. James Caan is perfect as the lifer-by-default, a guy apparently motivated by inertia and the need for a job rather than any driving patriotic force. Marsha Mason is likewise great as the whore-with-a-heart (not necessarily a heart of gold), and the boy who plays her son is superb. Eli Wallach is flawless as the lifer left over from the old "Rocks and Shoals" Navy, a genuinely tough era much more closely-related to life in the 19th century than the 21st. If you want a look at enlisted life in the Navy, especially in the early 70's (yes, they did allow mustaches and a bit of hair in those days), I would recommend this film wholeheartedly.