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Blue Denim

1959, Movie, NR, 89 mins

Blue Denim: Review

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BLUE DENIM was the first of many troubled-teenager films and certainly one of the best. Lynley gets pregnant by de Wilde (only six years after he was such an innocent tyke in SHANE) and can't bring herself to tell her father (Taylor). De Wilde has very little in common with his selfish parents, Hunt and Carey, so he's not able to let them know how he feels about being a teenage father. With the aid of Berlinger, Lynley and de Wilde get enough money together for Lynley to have an illegal abortion. De Wilde tells his folks about it and they are incensed, stopping the operation and telling him that he must do the honorable thing and marry her. The exciting chase sequence at the end of the film is to stop the abortionist from doing the deed. The movie's ending differs from that of the play, which has an abortion as the culmination. The film shows the kids going off to another city to have the child and to presumably live happily ever after. BLUE DENIM is essentially about alienation and the inability of parents to understand their children. It gets a bit simplistic in places, with all the sympathy on the side of the kids and no kind words for the long-suffering parents. Berlinger (a cousin of Milton Berle) does well as de Wilde's fast-talking pal. leave a comment
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