Bless the Beasts and Children (film)
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| Directed by | Stanley Kramer |
| Written by | Mac Benoff |
| Starring | Bill Mumy Barry Robins Jesse White |
| Distributed by | Columbia Pictures |
| Release date(s) | 1971 |
| Running time | 109 minutes |
| Language | English |
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Bless the Beasts and Children (1971) is a cinema film adaptation of the eponymous novel, by Glendon Swarthout, that was directed by Stanley Kramer, featuring Bill Mumy and Barry Robins.
[edit] Plot
The story follows a group of six teenaged boys, who share a cabin at a residential summer camp in the western mountains. Each of the boys is a misfit in one way or another; the group is ostracized by the other boys at the camp, and form a bond based, in part, on this broader social isolation. After being taken on a field trip to see a captured herd of bison that is being slaughtered by local hunters, the boys resolve to sneak away from the camp and set the penned bison free.
The film is presented partially out of sequence; the primary narrative of freeing the bison is interspersed with flashback scenes showing the boys' troubled lives both at the camp, and at their homes.
[edit] Soundtrack and score
The music for the film was composed by Barry De Vorzon and Perry Botkin, Jr.. Their score for the movie included an instrumental selection titled "Cotton's Dream," which was later rescored to become "Nadia's Theme", the theme song of the soap opera The Young and the Restless (produced by Columbia's television division, now Sony Pictures Television). The soundtrack for the film also includes the movie's theme song sung by The Carpenters.
For their work, De Vorzon and Botkin were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Original Song and the Grammy Award for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special.
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