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Aggiungi una trama nella tua linguaA man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.A man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.A man settles down in a small town and becomes the scoutmaster.
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Charles Ruggles
- John Everett Hughes
- (as Charlie Ruggles)
Tol Avery
- Dr. Ferris
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Walter Bacon
- Courtroom Spectator
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
David Alan Bailey
- Duke
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Richard Bakalyan
- Umpire
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
Sherwood Ball
- Scout
- (non citato nei titoli originali)
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- QuizThis was Kurt Russell first Disney movie.
- BlooperLem takes Vida to the movies on their first date to see a Ronald Colman and Carole Lombard picture, but his dialogue is interrupted (conveniently) before he can name the movie title. In front of the theater the marquee shows the title of the feature, "Altar Bound", along with the two stars names. The movie "Altar Bound" however, appears to be fictional.
- Versioni alternativeThe 1976 theatrical reissue was shortened by 10 minutes, as was the original home video. The DVD is of the complete, original version.
- ConnessioniFeatured in The Age of Believing: The Disney Live Action Classics (2008)
- Colonne sonoreFollow Me, Boys!
by Robert B. Sherman and Richard M. Sherman
Performed by Fred MacMurray (uncredited) and cast, and heard in score
Recensione in evidenza
The Walt Disney company serves up some memorable schmaltz with this adaptation of a book by MacKinlay Kantor. Fred MacMurray is inherently endearing as Lemuel Siddons, travelling with a jazz band in 1930 who decides to set down roots in a small town. Going to work as a store clerk, he has aspirations of being a lawyer, but he soon discovers what his true passion in life will be: leading a Boy Scout troop. And so he does, seeing them through the good and bad times for the next 20 years, and becoming a father figure to troubled Whitey (15 year old Kurt Russell, in his first Disney film), whose biological dad (Sean McClory) is a hopeless alcoholic.
Wonderful performances by all concerned - Lillian Gish plays a rich but generous local, Elliott Reid her cranky, greedy nephew, the radiant Vera Miles as Lem's sweetheart, Charlie Ruggles as kindly storekeeper John Everett Hughes, Parley Baer as the mayor - go a long way towards keeping this feature watchable for an admittedly overlong two hours and 12 minutes. The comedic sequence where Lem and his current troop get taken aback by soldiers playing war games doesn't really add anything to the story, though, and could have been taken out without detracting from it. Overall, the film IS very corny, but it's delivered with such square-jawed conviction that the viewer won't much mind being manipulated so frequently.
A nice depiction of small town America from the '30s to the '50s also helps, along with a welcome sense of humour at times. (Lem's troop in the '30s includes kids with such colourful nicknames as "Hoodoo" and "Beefy".) And it is refreshing to see a scrupulously wholesome family film inspire its viewers, young and old, with its portrayal of the Boy Scout tradition.
The excellent cast includes such other performers as Luana Patten, Ken Murray, Donald May (as the grown-up version of the Kurt Russell character), Steve Franken, William Reynolds, Richard Bakalyan, Willis Bouchey, and Adam Williams.
"Follow Me, Boys" will be too sentimental for some viewers to take, but others will find it utterly delightful.
Seven out of 10.
Wonderful performances by all concerned - Lillian Gish plays a rich but generous local, Elliott Reid her cranky, greedy nephew, the radiant Vera Miles as Lem's sweetheart, Charlie Ruggles as kindly storekeeper John Everett Hughes, Parley Baer as the mayor - go a long way towards keeping this feature watchable for an admittedly overlong two hours and 12 minutes. The comedic sequence where Lem and his current troop get taken aback by soldiers playing war games doesn't really add anything to the story, though, and could have been taken out without detracting from it. Overall, the film IS very corny, but it's delivered with such square-jawed conviction that the viewer won't much mind being manipulated so frequently.
A nice depiction of small town America from the '30s to the '50s also helps, along with a welcome sense of humour at times. (Lem's troop in the '30s includes kids with such colourful nicknames as "Hoodoo" and "Beefy".) And it is refreshing to see a scrupulously wholesome family film inspire its viewers, young and old, with its portrayal of the Boy Scout tradition.
The excellent cast includes such other performers as Luana Patten, Ken Murray, Donald May (as the grown-up version of the Kurt Russell character), Steve Franken, William Reynolds, Richard Bakalyan, Willis Bouchey, and Adam Williams.
"Follow Me, Boys" will be too sentimental for some viewers to take, but others will find it utterly delightful.
Seven out of 10.
- Hey_Sweden
- 8 feb 2020
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