The Quiet One

Infobox Film
name = The Quiet One


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director = Sidney Meyers
producer = Janice Loeb
writer = Helen Levitt
Janice Loeb
Sidney Meyers
James Agee (commentary)
starring = Gary Merrill
Donald Thompson
Clarence Cooper
Sadie Stockton
Estelle Evans
Paul Baucum
music = Ulysses Kay
cinematography = Richard Bagley
Helen Levitt
Janice Loeb
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distributor = Mayer and Burstyn
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runtime = 65 minutes
country = USA
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imdb_id = 0040717

"The Quiet One" is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill.Crowther, Bosley (1949). " [http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/review?_r=1&res=9E04E6D8173FE03ABC4C52DFB4668382659EDE 'The Quiet One,' Documentary of a Rejected Boy, Arrives at the Little Carnegie] ," "The New York Times" February 14, 1949. Online version retrieved Jan. 12, 2008.] In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly:quote|Out of the tortured experiences of a 10-year-old Harlem Negro boy, cruelly rejected by his loved ones but rescued by the people of the Wiltwyck School, a new group of local film-makers has fashioned a genuine masterpiece in the way of a documentary drama.

The still photographer Helen Levitt was one of the film's cinematographers and writers, along with the painter Janice Loeb. The neoclassical composer Ulysses Kay wrote the score for the film. The film's three writers - Meyers, Loeb, and Levitt - were nominated for the Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Academy Award; the film itself was also nominated for the Best Documentary Feature Academy Award. The National Board of Review named "The Quiet One" the second best film of 1949.

References and external links

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* [http://www.archive.org/details/the_quiet_one "The Quiet One" at the Internet Archives]