Boy on a Dolphin
| Boy on a Dolphin | |
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Original lobby card
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| Directed by | Jean Negulesco |
| Produced by | Samuel G. Engel |
| Written by | Ivan Moffat Dwight Taylor |
| Based on |
Boy on a Dolphin 1955 novel by David Divine |
| Starring |
Alan Ladd Clifton Webb Sophia Loren |
| Music by | Hugo Friedhofer |
| Cinematography | Milton R. Krasner |
| Edited by | William Mace |
| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Release date
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April 19, 1957 |
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Running time
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111 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $2.8 million |
| Box office | $3.3 million |
Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and shot in DeLuxe Color and 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 of the same name by David Divine.
The film was Sophia Loren's English-language debut. She starred opposite Alan Ladd and Clifton Webb, with Alexis Minotis and Laurence Naismith in support. Hugo Friedhofer's score was nominated for a Best Music Academy Award in 1958. Cinematography was by Milton Krasner. It was the first Hollywood movie shot in Greece.
Phaedra (Sophia Loren) is a poor Greek sponge diver on the island of Hydra. She works from the boat of her boyfriend, Rhif (Jorge Mistral), an illegal immigrant from Albania. She accidentally finds an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin on the bottom of the Aegean Sea. Her efforts to sell it to the highest bidder lead her to two competing individuals: Dr. James Calder (Alan Ladd), an honest archaeologist who will surrender it to Greek authorities, and Victor Parmalee (Clifton Webb), an aesthete and an unscrupulous dealer with a history of trying to acquire works of art stolen by the Nazis from their owners.
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