Corporation for Public
Broadcasting (The Program Fund)
Atlantic Richfield Company (ARCO)
Date:
March 16, 1982
Director:
Richard Bartlett
Producer:
Olivia Tappan
Exec.Producer:
Fred Barzyk
Costumes:
Oleksa
Running Time:
95 Minutes
Status:
Not available for purchase
Resides in WGBH library
Story Lines:
Sears Radio
Wilbur Duckworth and the Magic Baton
The Blind Date
Scragging
The Wash Rag Pyramid Scheme
Uncle Carl's Fireworks Stand
The Old Man's Fireworks Display
Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb
Fireworks on the roof of Roosevelt High
Sack races at the picnic
Cast:
Matt Dillon
Ralph Parker
James Broderick
The Old Man
Barbara Bolton
Mom
Jay Ine
Randy
Jeffery Yonis
Schwartz
Babe Sargent
Ludlow Kissel
William Lampley
Flick
Mike Moore
Wilbur Duckworth
Frank Dolan
Mr Dirks
Harriet Wilson
Mrs. Kissel
Will Sahlein
Zudoc
Brian Smiar
Gus
John Blood
John
Arnie Cox
Ace
William R Riker
Uncle Carl
Lisa Jacobsen
Pamela
Andrea McCullough
Clara Mae
Christopher Childs
Mailman
Paul McMaster
Hot Dog Man
Dana Hardwick
Ledbetter
Ruth Edinberg
Mother at Picnic
Notes:
Jean Shepherd as the
Narrator
"Ballad of Ludlow Kissel" Sung by Leigh Brown
Shep's dog Daphne appears in the movie
This movie was
comprised of many of the stories which first appeared in
Playboy Magazine
and were told in various forms over the years on the radio.
In the movie, during the 'blind date'
scene, Shep and his blind date Pamela, Schwartz and his date Clara Mae,
are watching the movie "Love is a Many-Splendored Thing". Clara Mae
says to Schwartz "This is so romantic. It's just like us." In the movie
William Holden and Jennifer Jones fall in love and Holden goes off to war
and never returns. In real life Schwartz goes off to war and never
returns.
The music at the end of the movie is
"Blue Hawaii" as sung by Bing
Crosby
If you recall, the opening
sequence had Shep at Pedro's South of the Boarder going through
the fireworks
