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The Spanish Gardener (1956)

initiated by Raju on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0049787/)

A British consul and his young son move from Madrid to a peaceful villa in the Spanish country-side.Michael Hordern plays a dominant father who treats his son Nicholas as a sickly child; giving him cod-live oil every evening and denying the boy's obvious pleasure in active outdoor activities. This over-bearing protection of his son is no doubt due to his wife's recent abandonment of the family. Ni more

A British consul and his young son move from Madrid to a peaceful villa in the Spanish country-side.Michael Hordern plays a dominant father who treats his son Nicholas as a sickly child; giving him cod-live oil every evening and denying the boy's obvious pleasure in active outdoor activities. This over-bearing protection of his son is no doubt due to his wife's recent abandonment of the family. Nicholas soon becomes friendly with the gardener (Dirk Bogarde) his father has reluctantly hired. Over the insuring weeks, Nicholas comes to devote most of his spare time to the Spainards company. This offends Michael Hordern as the gardener soon becomes a surrogate father to the young Nicholas.It's funny to see a lightly sun-tanned Dirk Bogarde portraying a Spaniard!This movie is quite enjoyable, though I doubt whether a major studio today could imagine anything more than 30 minutes of film being drawn from the screenplay. In it's decidingly 50's theme, I also doubt whether many film-makers would consider the material interesting enough to be the sole subject of a movie.

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