![]() ![]() This version excises ++ any sense of death, and death is absolutely at the heart of this story. The worst sin, though, is what they left out. So, hey, NTC let's just pad it out, and we'll be able sell another hour of ads. The 1966 version, produced and directed by Frank Perry - whose first film, "David and Lisa," is another small masterpiece about love - runs only about 45 minutes. ![]() So, why did they make all this stupid stuff up? To fill two hours and sell more ads. Buddy's supposed to be lonely - his loneliness is crucial to the tone of the story. Screenwriter and executive producer Duane Pool also created another character out of whole cloth, a girl (Julia McIlvane) for Buddy to be friends with so he won't be so lonely: more cliche-ridden, Southern claptrap with Buddy and the girl in a treehouse sharing secrets. She stops just short of saying, "Lord, the trouble I've seen."Īnd, just in case there are one or two black viewers who don't have problems with the depiction, the big joke about her is that she constantly tries to convince people she's a Native-American, not an African-American. ![]() And what a stereotype she is: large, motherly, superstitious and world-weary. Further obliterating any sense of the Depression and lower social class, the household now has an African-American washwoman (Ester Scott). ![]()
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