The Careless Years

1957
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1h 10min

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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaHigh-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.High-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.High-school girl from a wealthy family falls for a fellow student from a poor family. Both families disapprove; unable to stand the pressure, the couple quit school and flee to Mexico.

Dirección
- Arthur Hiller
Guión
- John Howard Lawson
- Mitch Lindemann
Reparto principal

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Dirección
- Arthur Hiller
Guión
- John Howard Lawson
- Mitch Lindemann
Reparto principal

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Dean Stockwell

Jerry Vernon

Natalie Trundy

Emily Meredith

John Larch

Sam Vernon

Barbara Billingsley

Helen Meredith

John Stephenson

Charles Meredith

Maureen Cassidy

Harriet

Mason Alan Dinehart

Bob Williams
(as Alan Dinehart III)

Virginia Christine

Mathilda Vernon

Gail Bonney

Saleslady
(sin acreditar)

Claire Carleton

Aunt Martha
(sin acreditar)

Jack Daly

Mr. Gordon
(sin acreditar)

Donna Jo Gribble

Student
(sin acreditar)

Robert Hyatt

Biff Vernon
(sin acreditar)

Norman Ollestad

Student
(sin acreditar)

Stephen Roberts

High School Science Teacher
(sin acreditar)

Hugh Sanders

Uncle Harry
(sin acreditar)

Elizabeth Slifer

Mrs. Belosi
(sin acreditar)

Isabel Withers

High School History Teacher
(sin acreditar)

Dirección
- Arthur Hiller
Guión
- John Howard Lawson
- Mitch Lindemann
Todo el reparto y equipo
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8planktonrules

A good film to show your kids.

"The Careless Years" is a film about two teens who fall in love and want to grow up too fast. Jerry and Emily (Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy) are desperately in love and their hormones are raging. As a result, they plan on marrying...even though they are still seniors in high school.

I appreciate this film for two reasons. First, it's realistic when it comes to sex and sexuality. Most films of the day take the 'just say no' attitude towards sex, which is awfully naïve. Second, it has an excellent message for teens...that it IS difficult to control those urges and that patience is important. But it also doesn't come off as preachy or phony...which I really appreciate. Well worth seeing and well made.

By the way, IMDB trivia says that Trundy was only 14 when she made the film. Unless she made it and they shelved it for a few years before releasing it, she was probably 17 or 18 (check her birthdate and year it was released...you'll see what I mean).

Michael_Elliott

Above Average

Careless Years, The (1957)

** 1/2 (out of 4)

Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy play a poor boy and a rich girl who find themselves in love but they're starting to feel sexual desires so in order to do things right they want to get married but all of the parents involved thinks that's a bad idea. I was pleasantly shocked to see how well made and at times emotion this film was. The story is told in a very serious manor and outside the title song the film comes off pretty well without any of the camp factor that usually attaches itself to a film like this. What really makes the film worth viewing are the performances, all of which are very good. Stockwell steals the show as the poor boy who finds himself falling apart as he tries to do things the right way. He does a great job at building this character up into someone we can care about. Trundy is also very good as the good girl who wants to do things the right way. John Lynch is terrific as the boys father and Barbara Billingsley from Leave it to Beaver plays the girl's over cautious mother. There's a terrific scene towards the end where the boy steals some of his father's money and how this plays out is very brutal, realistic and quite emotional. The one thing that hampers the film is the fact that we've seen this type of movie countless times before.

7mollytinkers

A nice surprise

When we talk about great male actors, how many times is Dean Stockwell mentioned? Dude worked 70+ years in the entertainment industry. This film proves why he lasted so long.

Typical mid-50s teen romance, yet tackles important topics. It's Mrs. Cleaver before Hugh Beaumont got ahold of her. Worth the watch if you're into that kind of thing.

8georgeredding

Straight to the point but very touching drama

To me, I am always taken with dramas about a rich girl falling for a fine, yet poor boy. And this movie is just that way, and is very heart-warming.

At a party one night at the rich girl's house, a teenager does fall for the rich girl, and she for him. (Dean Stockwell, who had been a capable movie actor from his childhood, performs his acting feat well in this movie.) It isn't all too long before the two want to get married. The boy's father is not for this, and neither is the girl's mother; Barbara Billingsley, the "Beaver"'s mother, is accomplished as the girl's mother here. While I was taken with the movie, in some places, though not many, there is a bit of frustration. However, the story does have a positive resolve, I feel, and the point of the potential problems of a teen-age marriage are expressed well in this cinematic work.

7boblipton

"He will turn the hearts of the parents to their children, and the hearts of the children to their parents"

Dean Stockwell and Natalie Trundy are high-school seniors who are very much in love. They're also good people -- well, she is -- so they decide to get married. When they tell their parents what they're going to do, that's when the shouting starts.

In its day, the first feature directed by Arthur Hiller was undoubtedly called "sensitive", and it reminds me of some of the arguments around my household almost half a century ago.. but at lower volume (in the movie). It certainly makes an effort to be honest within its Production Code limits. It indicates the reciprocal yearnings, to be young ad free of responsibilities, ad to be accepted as an adult visually, particularly with the woman, via clothes, with Miss Trundy and her screen mother, Barbara Billingsly, trying on the same dress in a changing room.

The movie is cramped a little by the Production Code, but it was clearly made in good faith. If its 1950s assumptions seem a trifle dull more than sixty years later, there's a speech early on about the effects of the Depression on peoples' plans. Sometimes a little dullness is nice after too much excitement.

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Curiosidades
Arthur Hiller's feature film directorial debut.

Pifias
When Jerry arrives for his date and gets out of his car holding flowers it's daytime. By the time he gets to the door it's night and all the lights are on in the house.

Citas
Sam Vernon: [talking to Jerry about Jerry wanting to marry Emily] Uhh, I remember how I felt when I was your age, I have respect for it. It was 1929... I was 18 and graduated from high school back in Kentucky. I remember saying goodbye to your mother when I went away looking for work. I went clear to Alaska trying to find a job... I knew she was waiting for me... so she waited 8 years. That's how times were then.
Jerry Vernon: [looks puzzled] Well, what's that got to do with it?
Sam Vernon: Now at least it's better, your girl won't have to wait so long.
Jerry Vernon: No, Emily and I don't want to wait at all.
Sam Vernon: We better never have anything like 1929 again. Just the same, you *learn* from it... money's a whip. Sometimes it gets to be like a whip on your bare back.
Jerry Vernon: [looks puzzled] Well, why do you keep going back over that? Things are different now, it's easy to get a job.
Sam Vernon: Yeah, but what kind of a job...
Jerry Vernon: Any kind.
Sam Vernon: Oh, no! No, not any kind. Kind where you make something of yourself. That's why I done what I could to have something in the bank for you... when you go to Tech.
[Jerry turns away]
Sam Vernon: Er, you're not thinkin' of givin' it up?
Jerry Vernon: It depends on whether my grades are good enough.
Sam Vernon: Well, you're not studying as much as you were.
Jerry Vernon: So what?
Sam Vernon: So what! Well, what are yuh gonna do, get some two-bit job and stick to it your whole life?
Jerry Vernon: No, I'm not gonna do that.
Sam Vernon: Well, that's what you'll end up doin' if you don't get some *sense* in your head!
Jerry Vernon: Look, Pa, there's no sense in getting sore.
Sam Vernon: You *think* you know all the answers, don't you, Jerry, just bec...
Jerry Vernon: [with attitude] I'm sorry, Dad. You say you know how I feel but you don't. I *love* her, that's what's important.
[Sam looks at him glaringly and walks away]