Boy on a Dolphin

Infobox Film
name = Boy on a Dolphin

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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|USA 19 April 1957
runtime = 111 min
country = USA
awards =
language = English
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imdb_id = 0050208

"Boy on a Dolphin" was a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by David Divine.

The film stars Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb and Sophia Loren with Alexis Minotis and Laurence Naismith. Hugo Friedhofer was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award in Best Music, Scoring category for his work. The cinematography was by Milton 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 Greek sponge 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 the Saronic Islands in the Saronic Gulf. Establishing shots of Athens, Rhodes and Delos are used as well. One scene utilizes the Orthodox monastery complex at Meteora that later would be used as a location in the James Bond film For 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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