Alphabetical Movie Listings: Lm-Lz

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Lola - (US?, 1969)

See "London Affair."

London Affair - (UK/US?, 1969/71)

Worthless Charles Bronson film about a American writer who marries Lola, a 16-year old British school girl. She and her friends appear extensively in school uniforms, including berets, blazers, mini skirts and white knee socks. She has a little brother with longish hair who is about 12 and also wears a school uniform with long trousers. Actually shorts for boys that age were still quite common in 1969. The film begins with Lola's wealthy family at breakfast. The boy helps reveal that Lola is reading a racy novel rather than studying her geometry. There is one brief scene in London, before the movie shifts to the States, picturing a crocodiles of little nippers in proper school uniform including caps with yellow crosses on top. Also billed as "Lola." A British reader writes, "I remember this film with Charles Bronson in it. The girls in it all wore proper school uniforms, with short pleated skirt and white knee socks."

Lone Cowboy - (US, 1933)

Jackie Cooper.

(The) Lone Wolf in Paris (US, 1938)

Mystery writer Louis Joseph Vance created the Michael Lanyard or Lone Wolf character in 1914. Many books and films followed, bith silent and talkies. While not well known today, he was an important character for many years and many see him as the inspiration for Leslie Chartis' "The Saint". The Lone wolf was depicted as a charming rogue. He began as a crafty European jewel thief, but chilvarous when it came to ladies in distress. He received his criminasl trainng from the an Irishman named Bourke who is never fully explained. The Lone Wolf morphed over time, the original thief became a reformed thief and then spy and private eye. Columbia made a series of Lone Wolf films. Francis Lederer stared as the thief turned detective. Lanyard on vacation in Paris finds the of course beautiful Princess Thania (Frances Drake) in his hotel bedroom. The Princess is attempting to retrieve her country's crown jewels which have been stolen by the villinous Grand Duke Gregor (Walter Kingsford) and his scheming minions. The Lone Wolf takes on the case, but he and Thania are kidnapped by Gregor's henchmen. Child actor Pio Peretti played the boy monarch.

(The) Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne - (?,1987)

An elderly Irish spinster falls in love. Boys in shorts appear in the Dublin street scenes. One of the boys of a family close to the spinster wears shorts (I think), but it is hard to tell.


Figure 1.--I believe that this is a scenre from 'The Long Day Closes'. I know very little about this film. It deals with a young boy's obsession with the movies. There are several school scenes. The film is set in Liverpool.

(The) Long Day Closes - (England, 19??)

A British reader has mentioned this film to us. I know very little about it, except for a few available scenes. The film deals with a young boy's obsession with the movies. There are several school scenes. The film is set in Liverpool, apparently in the early 1950s. Hopefully our British readers who have seen this film will provide more information.

Long John Silver - (Australia, 1953)

Sequel to Treasure Island. Kit Taylor about 12-year old plays Jim Hawkins, but he is a rather disappointing actor and in some ways rather adult looking. He wears 18th century knee breeches, but there are no scenes of special interest. There is one scene in which Jim appears in a long sleeping gown.

Long Live the King - (US, 1923)

Jackie Coogan

Long Pants - (US, 1927)

Harry Langdon version of a delayed rise to adulthood, caused when he gets his first pair of long pants. He is a country bumpkin who rejects his parents' choice of a bride and falls for a city vamp.

Long Time Gone - (US, 1986)

"Long Time Gone" was released in the United States in 1986. The film was directd by Robert Butler. The important actors were: Paul Le Mat, Wil Wheaton, Ann Dusenberry, Ray Girardin, Barbara Stock, and Richard C. Sarafian. In the film a has-been detective finds himself responsible for his young son that hepriviously had little todo with.

Longshots -

Leif Garrett

(The) Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner - (US, 1962)

A rebellious young man in reform school is chosen to run a cross-country race. The training affords him the opportunity to contemplate his life.

(The) Loneliest Runner - (US, 1976)

Made for TV movie about a junior high school boy who wets the bed. An Olympic athlete looks back on his boyhood. The boy is very beautifully played by Lance Kerwin. His mother does not understand and humiliates the boy as a punishment by hanging the wet sheets out of his window. He becomes a long distant runner as he races home every day to pull the sheets in before the other kids get home. His father reluctantly goes along with the mother's punishments. They keep him in a little boy's bed until he stops his wetting. Produced by Michael Landon who I think had this problem as a boy.

Look Homeward - (US, 1968)

Lassie becomes separated from her master and tries to get back. I haven't seen it so I'm not sure who the master is.

Looking for Miracles - (Canada, 1989)

Lovely little movie set in late 1920s/early 1930s at a Canadian boys' summer camp. A 16-year old camp councilor is forced to make concessions after his pesky little brother tags along. Most of the boys wear shorts, long baggy ones and so unsightly they rather detract from the film. One boy wears a sailor suit during visitors day. The story line describes the process of the two brothers adjusting to each other after a long separation. The younger brother, Sullivan (Zachery Bennett), does a superb job playing a sweet innocent boy picked on by the other boys. His lovely little smile was just delightful. Another boy, Theodore/Rat Face, played an objectional boy. In a few sensitive scenes he was almost bearable. He objects to dressing up like Indians in loin clothes, calling them diapers. Carried on PBS's "Wonder Works" series.


Figure 2.--The boys in "Lord" of the Flies" at the beginning of the film are depicted in their school uniforms before they begin to descend into barbarity.

Lord of the Flies (England, 1963)

This is surely one of the most provocative films about boys ever made. It is in the same genre as The War of the Buttons, but much more powerful. This is a very powerful and dramatic movie. The acting by the boys is excellent, the writing is effective, and the location shooting is superb. The plot is about a group of English private prearatory school boys, including a choir, stranded on a deserted island when the airplane they are on crashes. All of the adults are killed and except for the very end, adults play no part in the plot and do not appaer. The film is based on the acclaimed novel by Sir William Golding and the film lives up to the book--unusual nowadays. Some of the boys attempt to resist the descent to barbarity, but the boys slowly revert to the primitive--led in this case by the choir. With many kids surviving, but no adults Ralph (James Aubrey) initially takes charge to the dismay of Jack (Tom Chapin), who wanted to be the leader. Eventually, Jack has enough of Raplhs leadership methods (order, discipline, rules etc), and decides to go it alone. Soon most of the kids have gone to Jacks "evil" camp. Without any adults in the party, civilization soon disapears as Jack imposes his rule leading to the theft, torture, and murder. It doesnt take long for these well behaved kids to turn into savages, that are capable of anything. Most of the boys wear English short pants school uniforms at the beginning of the film, including caps, ties, blazers, short trousers, and kneesocks. They slowly discard their hot woolen clothes. Mostly non professional actors were used for the boys who had a real romp on the island during the filming. James Aubrey, Tom Chapin, Hugh Edwards, Tom Gaman.

Lord of the Flies - (US, 1990)

Lord of the Flies was remade in the United States in 1990. It recast the Golding novel with American boys from a military school. The boys do a nice acting job. It is more modest than the 1963 version and the boys initial uniforms are not blazers, shorts, and knee socks, but still worth seeing. It doesn't have the same power as the original. Ralph (Balthazar Getty) is a particularly effective little actor. However the recasting the plot from "angelic" English choir boys to military school bills looses some of the dramtic affect of the decline toward barbarity--a seriouserror on the part of the producer. The original film based more closely on the Golding story is much more effective.

Lords of Discipline - (US, 1983)

Pat Conrad's fictional account of his experiences at the Citadel, a college-level military academy in Charleston South Carolina. This well-made movie depicts the hazing prevalent, including how bed wetters and masturbators were dealt with. While well done, his experience on a Souyh Carlina coastal island, ????, was his real masterpiece.

Los Niņos Abandonados - (Clolombia, 1974)

A cast of abandoned children appear in the streets of a small Colombian city. The children sing music they composed themselves. In Spanish with English subtitles.

Los Ojos de un Niņo -

Jorge Luke

Los Olvidados -

See "The Young and the Damned"

Losin' It - (US, 1982)

Four teenage boys hope to lose their virginity in a Texas brothel. Tom Cruise and Jackie Earle Haley.

Lost - (US, 1955)

A child's kidnapping affects police officials, the parents, and the press.

Lost Angel - (US, 1943)

Bobby Driscoll's first film.

(The) Lost Boys - (US, 1987)

Young boys must save a town from a teenage vampire motorcycle gang. Who thinks these things up?

(The) Lost Boys - (UK, 19??)

The BBC in 19?? profuced a made for TV film about J.M. Barie and the five boys of Arthur and Sylvia Llewelyn Davies. The film is based on the book Andrew Birkin and the Lost Boys published in 1979 by Andrew Birkin. The relationship is brilliantly explored in the book and summarized in the BBC film. The costuming in the film appears to have been reasobably accurate. The boys wear vack buttoning smocks and berets which is how the Llewelyn Davies were ctully dressed. I am not sure, however, how accurate the colors were. In additioin, the smocks that the oys wore in the film seem rather shorter than the ones the Llewelyn Davies boys actually wore, or normally worn by other English or French boys.

(The) Lost Child -

See "Munna."


Figure 3.--This is the movie production of the campy "Lost in Space" TV series. As in the TV series, the space family Robinson (a play on Robinson Caruso) is on a journey to colonize space. Here Will is directing the robot in the fight against the menancing space spiders.

Lost in Space (US, 1998)

This is the movie production of the campy "Lost in Space" TV series. As in the TV series, the space family Robinson (a play on Robinson Caruso) is on a journey to colonize space. The movie family is headed for Alpha Prime to establish a colony as part of an effort to save humanity from a dieing planet and extinction. Their mission is sabatoged by the sinister Dr. Smith. They find themselves of course lost in space. There are Cameos by Mark Goddard, Angela Cartwright, Marta Kristen, and June Lockhart, but not Billy Mummy who played Will Robinson from the original cast of the TV series. The movie production has none of the campy humor of the TV series and Dr. Smith in the film is not bumbling, but really evil. The relationship between Will Robinson and the robot is not one of the central features of the plot line as is the case in the TV series--the source of the famous line, "Danger, Will Roibinson". The boy's performance is competent, but I think fans of Billy Mummy and the TV series will be disappointed. The costuming in the film seem particularly uninspired. There is, however, enough excitement and aspecial affects to make the film worth watching.

Lost in the Barrens - (US, 1990)

An orphan and a young Cree Indian find themselves lost in the frozen Canadian wilderness in this adaptation of a Farley Mowat novel.

Lost in Yonkers - (US, 1993)

Well done film featuring two boys. They both appear in suits. The younger boy always wear knickers, the older boy occasionally.

(The) Lost Language of Cranes - (UK, 1991)

A married man must come to terms with his homosexuality when he learns his son is also gay.

(The) Lost Prince - (UK, 2002)

This made for TV BBC production chronicles the sad life of Prince John, the youngest son of King George V. It is directed by Stephen Poliakoff. The drama and Prince John's life is set against the backdrop of one of the momentous periods in European history, the period leading up to World war I and the War years. The production provides a view of both King George V and Queen Mary. John was diagnosed as an epileptic and waa proabaly also autistic. The drama presents events from the boy's his disarmingly honest point of view. The production stars Miranda Richardson, Tom Hollander, Gina McKee, Frank Finlay and Michael Gambon.

Louisa - (US, 1950)

Rather Corny Ronald Reagan family film. His son is played by a boy who typifies the all American boy (Billy Ames?). He played the same role in a lot of the films of that era. Of course he strictly wears long pants.

Love Affair - (US, 1939)

'Love Affair' has an important placev in film history and a few children appear in some of the scenes. These films shot with contemprary clothing are helpful in fashion history. A romantic Frenchman, Michel Marnet (Charles Boyer). and an American woman, Terry McKay (Irene Dunne), have a shipboard romance. The two or disuaded to separate for 6 months to give Michel a chance to earn a decent living. They arrange to meet in New York at the Empire State Building. An accident leads to a tragic misunderstanding. It prioved to be Dunne's favorite film. It was a huge hit in a year with so many great films. She was again nominated for an Academy Award, but the competition was too much in 1939. The film was was written, directed, and produced by Leo McCarey in his first major drama. Scott Beckett had an aboard ship scene. Children also come into the film near the end and Dunne organizes a choir. We note one black child among the children. Some directors were beginning to maske modest efforts to present blacks as part of the American landcape. McCarey remade Love Affair in what has become known as a Hollywood classic--An Affair to Remember with Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr plaing the star-crossed lovers. A later semi-remake was the film that featured in Sleepless in Seattle, a charming movie about an 8-year old who uses a radio talk show to find a new wife of his widower father.

Love and Larceny - (US,1985)

Story of a female con artist set at the turn of the century. She has a little boy who appears once in a sailor suit. I don't think he appears again, but I didn't see the whole film.

Love Birds - (US,1934)

Mickey Rooney

(The) Love Bug - (1969)


Love Finds Andy Hardy - (US,1938)

Mickey Rooney


Figure 4.--This image shows Dickie Moore in the 1938 film, "Love, Honor and Behave" as Ted, the main character as a boy. Dickie played a lot of roles like this. His mother is raising him to be a good loser rather than a confident winner.

Love Honor and Behave - (US, 1938)

Dickie Moore plays the main character, Ted. as a boy at the beginning of this romantic commedy. Dickie played a lot of roles like this. His mother is raising him to be a good loser rather than a confident winner. The result is that he grows up to be a weakling without the courage to assert himself as a man. We follow Ted as he marries Barbara, his childhood sweetheart. He has trouble meeting his family responsibilities. Brbara loses respect for him and begins stepping out on him. This seems to engender major changes in Ted who finally steps forward.

Love is a Dog from Hell - (Belgium)

based on Charles Bukowski stories. Begins with Harry as a fresh-faced farm lad played by Geert Hunaerts, with bright hungary eyes. We see him in the movie theater mesmerized with a fairy-book princess is rescued by a knight errant. Afterwards he steals a picture of her from the display at the entrance. As the movie unfolds, Harry is taken in hand by an older friend. The scenes are designed to show the disparity between a boy's downy visions and the realities of interpersonal relations.

Love Is a Headache - (US,1938)

Mickey Rooney

Love Strange Love - (Brazil, 1982)

Rather dull movie. A young boy is sent to live with his mother in a luxurious bordello. Filmed in Portuguese with dubbed English.

Love That Bruit - (US, 1950)

Film about a good-natured gangster, Big Eddie. A boy about 10 or 11 has a prominent role. He plays a rather obnoxious boy. He appears in long pants suits.

Lovey: A Circle of Children, Part II - (US, 1978)

A teacher of emotionally disturbed children finds herself torn between filling her own needs or those of the children. I believe this is a sequel to "Circle of Children."

Lovers Courageous - (US, 1932)

Jackie Searl

Lord Jeff - (US, 1938)

Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney

(The) Lost Jungle - (US, 1934)

Serial with Mickey Rooney.

Lot's of Luck -


Love Strange Love - (Brazil, 1982)

Mauro Mendonca, Walter Foster. On the eve of a revolution, a naive 14-year old boy is sent to live in a palatial bordello with his mother, a beautiful and powerful prostitute. Set in the 1930s.

(The) Loves of Isadora -

See "Isadora."

Lucan - (US, 1971)

Boy searches for his own identity after being wild all his life. Kevin Brophy.

Lucas - (US, 1986)

Lucas, a precocious, pint-size 14 year old boy has a crush on an older girl who has moved into his neighborhood. He takes on the school football team to regain her affections. He ignores a sweet little girl his own age. Lucas is played by Corey Haim and is a rather engaging in the role. Before school he appears in shorts. In one scene the team caches him in the showerand and eventually push him outside in only a towel. Kerri Green and Charlie Sheen.

Lucky Cisco Kid - (US, 1940)

Johnny Sheffield.

(The) Lucky Star - (US, 1980)

A 13-year old Jewish Dutch boy fantasizes about the German soldiers moving toward his town. A technically well made movie, but the premise is ridiculous. The main character and his friend wear short pants suits and knee socks at the beginning of the movie. In one scene the boys sneak off to a movie. You see them watching a western, sitting with their knees up to their chins. The kinickers suit was brown. The main actor also wears knickers as well as other suits. He dreams of being a cowbow as he has seen in films. He is a teenager, who is being harboured or hidden by a woman who protects him from the Nazis. She meets him along a typical Dutch/Belgium road lined by trees. She was driving a large black 4-door car. It resembled the large Mercedes that Hitler and the NAZI-bigwigs were driven in. There was a girl about the same age as the boy, about 13-14 years old, that he meets and likes. The NAZIs have occupied the town. The lady takes the boy in and uses him as her hired help on the her small farm. He seems to enjoy this farm setting, but due to his growing fantasy he takes a NAZI captive in the small barn on the woman's property when he comes to check up on things. This causes much trouble for him and in the end the boy is shot by the NAZIs in the middle of the nearby small town while pretending to be a cowboy like he has seen in the movie. He drew a toy gun on a German soldier who had a rifle and shot him, thinking the gun in the boy's hand is real. This has aired many times on "The Family Channel" and also on "Bravo Arts Network".

(The) Lonestar Kid - (US, 1986)

True story of an 11?-year old boy who ran for mayor in a Texas town to improve city services. Chad Sheets. Reasonably well-done film. He wears longs throughout.

Lucky Johnny - (Italy?,1981)

Uninteresting movie, but Johnny is very briefly pictured at two ages (about 10 and 13) at the beginning of the movie.






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