The Big Night (1951)

Directors

Joseph Losey

Cast

John Drew Barrymore, Preston Foster, Joan Lorring, Howard St. John, Dorothy Comingore, Philip Bourneuf, Emile Meyer, Howland Chamberlain, Myron Healey, Mauri Lynn

The story

Shy, bespectacled George LaMain is bullied by classmates, near his home. It is his 17th birthday, and his father Andy who has seen the bullying produces a cake for George to blow out the candles. George and his father are to attend a boxing match that evening, and George queries why Andy's long-term girlfriend Frances is not to join them.

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