The Webster Boy Explained

The Webster Boy
Director:Don Chaffey
Producer:Emmet Dalton
Screenplay:Ted Allan
Editing:John Trumper
Music:Wilfred Josephs
Starring:Richard O'Sullivan
John Cassavetes
Elizabeth Sellars
Cinematography:Gerald Gibbs
Studio:Ardmore Studios
Runtime:104 minutes
Country:United Kingdom
Language:English

The Webster Boy is a 1962 Irish film directed by Don Chaffey and written by Ted Allan and Leo Marks.[1] [2] [3]

Cast

Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Unconvincing and altogether weird, this attempt at a British Frenzy has nothing to recommend it. The dialogue is unspeakable, for one thing, and since the worst of it goes to Geoffrey Bayldon as the psychotic schoolmaster, one can't even judge whether this unusual actor is unusually bad or unusually original, or whether he simply can't help turning nasty whenever he finds himself involved in films like The Webster Boy."[4]

Leslie Halliwell said: "Curious, totally unbelievable melodrama."[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Webster Boy . 7 September 2024 . British Film Institute Collections Search.
  2. Web site: The Webster Boy (1961) – Don Chaffey | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related. AllMovie.
  3. Web site: The Webster Boy (1962). https://web.archive.org/web/20181203132410/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6ba5528d. dead. 3 December 2018. BFI.
  4. 1 January 1962 . The Webster Boy . . 29 . 336 . 117 . .
  5. Book: Halliwell, Leslie . Halliwell's Film Guide . Paladin . 1989 . 0586088946 . 7th . London . 1098.