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Synopsis: In a small Georgia town, twelve year old tomboy Frankie Addams feels unconnected to the world, a fact troubling to her. Her unconventional views for a twelve year old girl make her an outcast among her peers, which she in turn blames for her situation rather than anything of her own doing. Her only real friend is John Henry, her younger next door neighbor, although she doesn't see him as a friend since she doesn't consider him a peer. As her widowed father is all consumed with running his small business, Frankie is largely left to the care of their housekeeper, Berenice. Berenice tries to provide as much true guidance to Frankie and what Frankie considers her problems, although Berenice has her own troubles looking after her wild foster brother, Honey Camden, her only surviving family. In addition, Frankie largely sees Berenice's advice as the rantings of a large, crazy black woman. Frankie believes that she has finally found her place in life upon the return to town and announcement b
Genre: Drama
Director(s): Fred Zinnemann
Production: Columbia Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Oscar. Another 1 win.
 
IMDB:
7.0
Rotten Tomatoes:
89%
TV-G
Year:
1952
93 min
522 Views


Begin to suspicion something, too.

Come on let's count these old cards.

We've worn these old cards out.

If you would eat these old cards,

they would taste

like a combination of all the dinners

of this summer

together with a sweaty-handed nasty taste.

Why, the jacks and the queens are missing!

John Henry,

how come you do a thing like that?

So that's why you asked for the scissors

and stole off quiet behind the arbor.

Why you take our playing cards

and cut out all the pictures?

'Cause I wanted 'em. They're cute.

See, he's nothing but a child.

It's hopeless. Hopeless!

Just have to put him out of the game.

He's entirely too young.

Oh, no, we can't put candy out of the game.

Gotta have a third to play.

Besides, by the last count,

he owes me close to three million dollars.

Oh, I'm sick unto death!

Oh, I wish they'd taken me with them

to Winter Hill this afternoon.

I wish tomorrow was Sunday

instead of Saturday.

Sunday will come.

I doubt it.

I wish I was going somewhere for good.

I wish I had $100 and could just light out

and never see this town again.

Seems to me

like you're wishing for a lot of things.

I wish I was somebody else except me.

Frankie, you serious when you

gave me the doll a while ago?

It gives me a pain just to think about them.

It's a known truth

gray-eyed people is jealous.

- Let's go play with the children, Frankie.

- I don't want to.

- Let's go.

- You got ears, you heard me!

I think maybe I better go home.

You just can't eat dinner and then go

off in the afternoon like that.

I know it.

You can go home, candy lamb,

if you want to.

But let's go out, Frankie.

They sound like they're having a lot of fun.

No, they're not.

They're just a crowd of ugly, silly children.

Running and hollering.

Running and hollering. Nothing to it.

Look, those big girls!

Hey, there!

I'm mighty glad to see you. Come on in.

We can't. We were just passing through

to notify our new member.

Am I the new member?

No, you're not the one the club elected.

Not elected?

Every ballot was unanimous

for Mary Littlejohn.

Mary Littlejohn?

You mean that girl

that just moved in next door?

Pasty fat girl with those tacky pigtails?

The one who plays the piano all day long?

Yes. Mary is training for a concert career.

You don't have enough sense

to appreciate a talented girl like Mary.

What are you doing in my yard?

You're never to set foot

on my papa's property again!

You crooks!

I could shoot you with my papa's pistol!

Crooks!

Why didn't you elect me?

Why can't I be a member?

I wouldn't pay them club girls no mind.

All my life I've been wanting things

I ain't been getting.

Besides, them club girls

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Edna Anhalt

Together with then husband Edward Anhalt, screenwriter Edna Anhalt (April 10, 1914 – 1987) enjoyed some considerable success in a ten-year stretch from 1947 to her retirement in 1957. This stretch was capped with an Oscar win for Elia Kazan's 1950 film Panic in the Streets, and another nomination two years later for The Sniper. She also wrote the screenplays to The Member of the Wedding (1952), Not as a Stranger (1955) and The Pride and the Passion (1957), before hanging up her pen after her divorce. more…

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