The Quiet One (1948)
A documentary account of the rehabilitation at the Wiltwyck School of an emotionally disturbed black boy who is unwanted, misunderstood, and inwardly tortured.
- Date of release
- 1948-09-01
- TMDB
- 5.4 / 10 (5)
- Runtime
- 1h 5m
- Genres
- Drama, Documentary
- Director
- Sidney Meyers
Casting
- Garry Merrill — Narrator (voice)
- Donald Thompson — Donald Peters
- Clarence Cooper — The counselor
- Sadie Stockton — The grandmother
- Estelle Evans — The mother
- Paul Baucum — The stepfather
Interesting facts
- Awards: 1 · Nominations: 2. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films
The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill. In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly:Out of the tortured experiences of a 10-year-old Harlem Negro boy, cruelly rejected by his loved ones but rescued by the people of the Wiltwyck School, a new group of local film-makers has fashioned a genuine masterpiece in the way of a documentary drama.
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