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Posted by diogenes on 2024-April-13 17:33:52, Saturday
In reply to Re: When boys feel seen or understood. posted by diogenes on 2024-April-13 16:47:58, Saturday

Other titles that occur to me:

Sammy Going South (1963) (aka A Boy Ten Feet Tall), about a boy living in Egypt whose parents are both killed and who sets out alone on a trek to his only living relative in South Africa.

Kim (1950), Kipling's story of the great game, the eponymous hero, played by Dean Stockwell, becomes the chela of a Buddhist lama, in a thinly disguised man-boy love relation. There was also a 1984 film, though I can never get over Peter O'Toole's bald cap. The 1960 adaptation for Shirley Temple's Storybook was, surprisingly, quite good.

I was reminded of the 1950 film by the latest excerpt from Gabriel Matzneff's journals on the GLTTA site: "Kim on television. When I was fifteen, I was madly in love with the character of Kim, or rather the American boy who played the role, Dean Stockwell. To this day, I can’t see that lovely face without emotion." (https://greek-love.com/index.php/modern-europe/france/the-journals-of-gabriel-matzneff/elijah-and-phaethon-1970-3)

diogenes

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