Dear Brigitte (1965)

Dear Brigitte (1965) (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Subtitles )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (2.35:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access
Trailer(s)

Movie filmed in 1965 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Henry Koster

Written By:
John Haase
Hal Kanter

Actors:
James Stewart ..... Professor Robert Leaf
Fabian ..... Kenneth 'Kenny' Taylor
Glynis Johns ..... Vina Leaf
Cindy Carol ..... Pandora 'Panny' Leaf
Bill Mumy ..... Erasmus 'Ras' Leaf
John Williams ..... Peregrine Upjohn
Jack Kruschen ..... Doctor Volker
Charles Robinson ..... George
Howard Freeman ..... Dean Sawyer
Jane Wald ..... Terry, George's Wife
Alice Pearce ..... Unemployment Office Clerk
Jesse White ..... Cliff Argyle the Bookie
Gene O'Donnell ..... Police Lt. Rink
Orville Sherman ..... Von Schlogg
Maida Severn ..... Miss Eva, Ras' Teacher
Brigitte Bardot ..... Herself, Cameo Appearance

Synopsis:

This family comedy stars James Stewart as Dr. Robert Leaf, a college professor who dislikes science and tries to instill in his children a love of art and music. So Robert and his wife Vina (Glynis Johns) are dismayed to discover that their eight-year-old son Erasmus (Billy Mumy) is tone-deaf and color-blind; what's worse, he has a genius-level talent for mathematics. Robert isn't sure what to do about Erasmus, but while his older sister Pandora (Cindy Carol) puts his skills to work by getting him to do her homework, his older friend Kenneth (Fabian) has a better idea. Kenneth and Erasmus come up with a foolproof plan for picking the winners in horse racing - so foolproof that it draws the attention of two con men, Upjohn (John Williams) and Argyle (Jesse White), who want to use Erasmus's skills to clean up at the track. Robert at first refuses, and then relents only when they agree to use a cut of the proceeds to endow a humanities scholarship, though Robert is about the only one surprised when the men prove not to be good to their word. Meanwhile, Erasmus is head over heels in love with French screen siren Brigitte Bardot - so much so that he's been writing her love letters. In return, the lucky boy has received an invitation to come meet her, and Robert and Erasmus use some of their racetrack winnings to fly to Paris and take her up on her offer.

Professor Leaf, an absent-minded poet with a prejudice against the sciences, is forced to face the fact that his son is a math prodigy with little artistic talent of his own.

Comedy of a tone deaf, colour blind 8 year old boy but with mathematical genius and a passion for Brigitte Bardot.

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