About this title: 1956's Tea and Sympathy is a diluted filmization of Robert Anderson's Broadway play. The original production was considered quite daring in its attitudes towards homosexuality (both actual and alleged) and marital infidelity; the film softpedals these elements, as much by adding to the text as by subtracting from it. John Kerr plays a sensitive college student who prefers the arts to sports; as such, he is ridiculed as a "sissy" by his classmates and hounded mercilessly by his macho-obsessed father Edward Andrews. Only student Darryl Hickman treats Kerr with any decency, perceiving that ...
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Format: DVD
Screen format: Full Screen
UPC:027616213860
Description: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman. New in new packaging. Language: English. Run time: 122 mins. Aspect ratio: 4: 3. Originally released: 1956. Region 1 Edition for USA/CANADA. Description: John Kerr plays a sensitive college student who prefers the arts to sports; as such, he is ridiculed as a "sissy" by his classmates and hounded mercilessly by his macho-obsessed father Edward Andrews. Only student Darryl Hickman treats Kerr with any decency, perceiving ... read more
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Format: VHS
Date: September 1, 1998
UPC:027616094933
Description: Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews, Darryl Hickman. Good in fair packaging. Originally released: 1956. Run time: 122 mins. Ex-rental in plain black case. Side label on tape is handwritten and there are three small store labels on the tape. Cover has been cut and flattened but will be included with order. read more
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