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Genres:
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Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Servando González
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Actors:
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Henry Hull,
Edward Albert,
Arnold Moss,
Yvonne Gilbert,
Charlotte Jones,
Anthony Perkins,
Dana Elcar,
Salome Jens,
Lana Wood
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Duration:
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99 min.
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Rating:
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(6.9/10)58
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Plot Summary:
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12-year-old George Mellish, tired of beatings in search both legitimate and fancied misdeeds at the hands of his foster parents,runs away from home by hopping a transportation train and lands somewhere east of the Mississippi River. The triumph being he meets is Dirty Jim Helliman who lives in a fantastically grimy hovel and with whom George feels a similar kidnap, both having "suffered" at the hands of a clean helpmeet. It is (definitely dirty) Coarse Jim that tells George of the mythical, eight-foot bogey man called "The Fool Killer." George gets sick and Foul Jim takes him to town where Mr... s.Ova Faversham takes charge of the Pathology febrile house-servant. When Help Angeline, Mrs. Faversham's 10-year-ex- daughter, tells George that her nourish intends to give him to his foster parents, George hits the byway again. He meets Milo Bogardus, a childish Civil War warhorse, who has been robbed of his retention by a contend wound, and is as lost in his own way as George. THey come upon a camp-site caucus, where the fanatical Reverend Spotts is conducting a revivalist congregation and during the religious frenzy, George blacks senseless. He comes to and is alone, and is unmindful that the Reverend has been murdered, and starts in his search to discover to be Milo. He finds a home with the Dodds, small burgh aggregate keepers. When, at supper, Dodds makes mention of the murder of the Reverend Spotts, George blurts in default that "The Idle Killer done it" and tells them the legend as told to him near Dirty Jim. That evening, while George lies in bed, a protection appears at his window. It is the figure of a tall, gaunt apparition, ax in hand all set to strike---"The Punch Daisy!"
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