Boy on a Dolphin (1957)

Director:

Jean Negulesco

Writers:

David Divine (novel)
Ivan Moffat (screenplay) ...

Release Date:

19 April 1957 (West Germany)

Genre:

Adventure | Romance

Tagline:

An adventurous love story that will live 'til the seas run dry!

Plot:

Sophia Loren stars as Phaedra, a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving,...

Plot Keywords:

Art Collector | Anthropologist | Diver | Statue | Man In Swimsuit

Awards:

Nominated for Oscar.

Cast

Alan Ladd	...	Dr. James 'Jim' Calder
Clifton Webb	...	Victor Parmalee
Sophia Loren	...	Phaedra
Alex Minotis	...	Milidias Nadapoulos - the government man
Jorge Mistral	...	Rhif
Laurence Naismith	...	Dr. Hawkins
Piero Giagnoni	...	Niko
Gertrude Flynn	...	Miss Dill

Runtime:

111 min

Country:

USA

Language:

English | Greek

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

4-Track Stereo (Westrex Recording System) (magnetic prints) | Mono (optical prints)

Certification:

UK:U | France:U | Finland:S | Sweden:Btl | Argentina:Atp

Filming Locations:

Acropolis, Athens, Greece

Company:

Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corporation

Trivia:

Originally, the film was to star Cary Grant. It was four days into shooting in Greece when Grant canceled. His wife, Betsy Drake, had survived the sinking of the Andrea Doria ocean liner and he went to be with her. Robert Mitchum was then considered, before Spyros Foucas signed Alan Ladd.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Mousiki vradya: Tragoudia apo ton Elliniko kinimatografo" (1976)

Soundtrack:

Boy on a Dolphin

An exotic on-location underwater thriller!

This film was one of 1957's top grossers mainly due to the fact that in those years the public wanted exotic European location shooting and the film certainly does a good job of showing Greece and Sophia Loren who is ravishing.The story is a thriller.Alan Ladd plays a archaeologist ,Sophia a poor sponge diver and Clifton Webb an unscrupulous collector of art.The plot is not really that important.What counts is the scenery and Sophia.Alan Ladd whom I have always considered as a very good actor, but underrated by critics does a good job,like always(he always tried his best), all the more so that his partner was really very much taller than him and he suffered from that.I don't understand why everybody made so much fuss about Alan Ladd's size.He was just as short or tall as Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney or even George Raft.The film is very enjoyable.