Ah, Wilderness!

Name: Ah, Wilderness!
Genre: Drama
Released: 1959-04-28
Duration: 1 h 30 min
Rating: 6.2
Cast: Norman Fell, Betty Field, Helen Hayes

TV Movie
1959
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

6.2/10

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Drama

On the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Mu... Read allOn the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forb... Read allOn the Fourth of July holiday in 1906, the Miller family prepares to celebrate in their New England home. Young Richard, 16, is a thoughtful and poetic youth in love with a neighbor girl, Muriel. When Richard's messages of poetry to Muriel upset her prudish father, Muriel is forbidden to see him and forced to write a letter saying she wishes no more to do with him. Ri... Read all

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Lee Kinsolving A GREAT Actor of Extraordinary Beauty

Hardly more than a boy the young Lee Kinsolving does an exquisite balance of the tenderness, desire and poetry and bravado that is so difficult to make the role of the 16 year old Richard resonate. He succeeds and I've never seen another 'Richard' capture the central character of Eugene O'Neill's delicate and elusive comic valentine to the year 1906. Kinsolving died very young (in his 30's) and never achieved real stardom but enriched even guest roles on TV Westerns. That is Betty Field and Helen Hayes along with a young Norman Fell to round the cast. But the young Richard who is modeled on the poetic young O'Neill, makes them all come alive.