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...school. After the war he was sidetracked once again, became a freelance radio writer and actor in Chicago, helped create the memorable It's Your Life series of documentaries. Last March, he got the idea for Mr. Wizard, sold it to NBC and hired twelve-year-old Bruce Lindgren as his helper and sometimes skeptical stooge...
...called "My Old Man," and they decided to make a picture out of it. Sure, sure, they got some good actors for it. They get Micheline Prelle, of the Rive Gauche. And Johnnie Garfield. He's a good actor, Danny. He's a great actor. And Orley Lindgren. They say he's good, too, but if I had my way I'd ram that little brat's teeth down his gullet. I never saw anything as stupid as a lousy kid actor trying to talk Hemingway...
...Because of Orley Lindgren, kid. Mostly, that is. The punk is so lousy he crawls all over the picture like a bedbug. It's enough to turn your stomach. I've seen some repulsive kids in my time, but that kid cops first place in my book...
...hard to beat a Hemingway plot into the ground, kid. 20th Century-Fox tried hard to do it. They didn't quite make it. The plot's O.K. But that Orley Lindgren got such a fat part he ruined the picture, kid. That's the way the chips fall...
John Garfield is the skillful jockey whose well-earned reputation for riding a crooked mile keeps him off U.S. racetracks. To his young motherless son (Orley Lindgren), who tags along from one continental track to another, the jockey is a hero. After double-crossing Italian Gambler Luther Adler by winning a race he was supposed to throw, Garfield flees to Paris, takes up with a chanteuse (Micheline Prelle) and buys his own horse to ride. He looks like a cinch to win the Big Race until vengeful Gambler Adler demands that he lose it or pay off with his life...