The Webster Boy

The Webster Boy
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Directed by	Don Chaffey
Screenplay by	Ted Allan
Produced by	Emmet Dalton
Starring	Richard O'Sullivan John Cassavetes Elizabeth Sellars
Cinematography	Gerald Gibbs
Edited by	John Trumper
Music by	Wilfred Josephs
Production company	Ardmore Studios
Release date	1962 (1962)
Running time	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

• Richard O'Sullivan as Jimmy Webster
• John Cassavetes as Vance Miller
• Elizabeth Sellars as Margaret Webster
• David Farrar as Paul Webster
• Geoffrey Bayldon as Charles Jamieson
• Niall MacGinnis as headmaster
• Harry Brogan as Grant
• Seymour Cassel as Vic

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]

References

1. "The Webster Boy". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 7 September 2024.
2. "The Webster Boy (1961) - Don Chaffey | Synopsis, Characteristics, Moods, Themes and Related". AllMovie.
3. "The Webster Boy (1962)". BFI. Archived from the original on 3 December 2018.
4. "The Webster Boy". The Monthly Film Bulletin. 29 (336): 117. 1 January 1962 – via ProQuest.
5. Halliwell, Leslie (1989). Halliwell's Film Guide (7th ed.). London: Paladin. p. 1098. ISBN 0586088946.

External links

• The Webster Boy at IMDb