Bless the Beasts and Children (film)

Infobox Film
name=Bless the Beasts and Children


caption=Bless the Beasts & Children movie poster.
director=Stanley Kramer
writer=Mac Benoff
starring=Bill Mumy Barry Robins Jesse White
distributor=Columbia Pictures
released=1971
runtime=109 minutes
language=English
imdb_id=0068286

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.

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.

oundtrack 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.

External links

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