- Boy on a Dolphin
Infobox Film
name = Boy on a Dolphin
caption = Original lobby card
director =Jean Negulesco
producer =Samuel G. Engel
writer = Ivan Moffat
Dwight Taylor
David Divine (novel)
starring =Alan Ladd
Clifton Webb Sophia Loren
music =Hugo Friedhofer
cinematography =Milton R. Krasner
editing =William Mace
distributor =20th Century Fox
released = flagicon|USA19 April 1957
runtime = 111 min
country =USA
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language = English
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imdb_id = 0050208"Boy on a Dolphin" was a 1957
20th Century Fox romantic film set inGreece and made inCinemaScope . It was directed byJean Negulesco and produced bySamuel G. Engel from ascreenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by David Divine.The film stars
Alan Ladd ,Clifton Webb andSophia Loren withAlexis Minotis andLaurence Naismith .Hugo Friedhofer was nominated for the 1958Academy Award in Best Music, Scoring category for his work. The cinematography was byMilton R. Krasner .The plot revolves around the attempts by two competing individuals - an archaeologist and a wealthy art collector - to retrieve an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin from the bottom of the
Aegean Sea . Ladd portrays the honest academic archaeologist, whose aim is to see to it that the statue is handed over to the rightful Greek authorities. Webb, on the other hand, plays a rich and unscrupulous grave-robber who wants to find the statue and keep it in his own private collection. Loren plays a Greeksponge diver who accidentally found the statue and is trying to make money by assisting Webb's character, but gets romanticly involved with Ladd's character.Production notes
This film marked Sophia Loren's American film debut. [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=85809 NY Times] ] ..
The film was shot at
Cinecittà ,Rome and on location on the island of Hydra one of theSaronic Islands in theSaronic Gulf .Establishing shots ofAthens ,Rhodes andDelos are used as well. One scene utilizes theOrthodox monastery complex atMeteora that later would be used as a location in theJames Bond filmFor Your Eyes Only .Because of the disparity in the heights of Sophia Loren and Alan Ladd, their love scenes presented something of a problem for director Jean Negulesco and his crew. Ladd was 5' 4" (1.625m) and Loren was 5' 8" (1.73m), requiring him to stand on a box for two shots; for a scene where the two walked together along the beach, a trench had to be dug for Loren to walk in, so Ladd would appear taller. [ [http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=85809 NY Times] ]
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