The Green Years (film)

Infobox Film
name = The Green Years


director = Victor Saville
producer = Leon Gordon
writer = A. J. Cronin (novel)
Robert Ardrey
Sonya Levien
starring = Charles Coburn
Tom Drake
Beverly Tyler
Hume Cronyn
Gladys Cooper
Dean Stockwell
Jessica Tandy
music = Herbert Stothart
cinematography = George J. Folsey
editing = Robert Kern
distributor = Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
released = July 4, 1946
runtime = 127 min.
country = USA
language = English
imdb_id = 0038578

"The Green Years" is a 1946 comedy-drama film featuring Charles Coburn, Tom Drake, Hume Cronyn, Gladys Cooper, Dean Stockwell, and Jessica Tandy, based on A. J. Cronin's novel of the same title. It tells the story of the coming-of-age of an orphan in Central Scotland and was directed by Victor Saville.

Cast

*Charles Coburn as Alexander "Dandy" Gow
*Tom Drake as Robert Shannon
*Beverly Tyler as Alison Keith
*Hume Cronyn as Papa Leckie
*Gladys Cooper as Grandma Leckie
*Dean Stockwell as Robert Shannon (as a child)
*Selena Royle as Mama Leckie
*Jessica Tandy as Kate Leckie
*Richard Haydn as Jason Reid
*Andy Clyde as Saddler Boag
*Norman Lloyd as Adam Leckie
*Robert North as Murdoch Leckie
*Wallace Ford as Jamie Nigg
*Eilene Janssen as Alison Keith (as a child)
*Henry H. Daniels, Jr. as Gavin Blair
*Richard Lyon as Gavin Blair (as a child)
*Henry O'Neill as Canon Roche
*Henry Stephenson as Blakely
*Norma Varden as Mrs. Bosomley

Awards and nominations

* Best Supporting Actor (nomination) - Charles Coburn
* Best Cinematography (nomination) - George J. Folsey
* Golden Berlin Bear for Best Picture at the Berlin International Film Festival (nomination) - Philip Leacock

External links

** [http://tcmdb.com/title/title.jsp?scarlettTitleId=76987 "The Green Years" at Turner Classic Movies] (trailer)
** [http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117791387.html?categoryid=31&cs=1 "Variety" review]
**imdb title | id=0038578 | title=The Green Years