Who Played Patty Cake In Spencer's Mountain
Henry Fonda and Maureen O'Hara star in SPENCER'South MOUNTAIN (1963), a motion-picture show predecessor to THE WALTONS, which debuted on TV nigh a decade afterwards. SPENCER'South Mountain is now available on a lovely Blu-ray from the Warner Archive.
Earl Hamner's novel SPENCER'Southward MOUNTAIN provided the basis for the motion picture, which was written and directed by Delmer Daves.
Hamner'due south Spencer/Walton family had a slightly convoluted screen history. SPENCER'S MOUNTAIN kept the graphic symbol names used in the novel, but Daves relocated the story from the Bluish Ridge Mountains to the 1000 Tetons of Wyoming.
When THE HOMECOMING (1971) was filmed for Television receiver, followed past the 1972 debut of the long-running THE WALTONS, most of the family and graphic symbol names were changed; Dirt and Clayboy Spencer became the names we know improve today, John and John-Boy Walton. The number of children was reduced and their names were likewise changed, and the setting was returned to the Blue Ridge Mountains.
In SPENCER'Southward MOUNTAIN Clay Spencer (Fonda) and his wife Livvy (O'Hara), his parents (Donald Well-baked and Lillian Bronson), and his children live on the mount named for their family.
Dirt is 1 of nine brothers, who are played by actors including Med Flory, Victor French, Mike Henry, and O'Hara'south blood brother James O'Hara (aka James Lilburn). Clay likewise has nine children himself! The eldest, Clayboy (James MacArthur of SWISS FAMILY ROBINSON), is the first in his family to graduate high school. Clayboy wants badly to go to college, but his family unit doesn't have the money.
How Clayboy finally makes it to higher is the pic's cardinal theme, but more than that, it's a portrait of a community: the kind quarry owner (Hayden Rorke) Clay works for; the teacher (Virginia Gregg) adamant to see her star pupil brand good; the new minister (Wally Cox) who overcomes an awkward introduction to the town and is there to lend the family a helping hand.
One could say that family and neighbors helping one another is actually the movie'southward primary theme, starting with the opening sequence when Clay's tall brothers all arrive for an early morning breakfast before helping him with a construction project on their day off from work. Indeed, Dirt himself leverages the many kindnesses he's done for his neighbors to help set things right with how they treat the new preacher in boondocks.
The movie is visually cute, from the opening credits shots of the Grand Tetons to the biscuits served at breakfast. Some critics have complained that the community -- especially the lovely O'Hara -- is likewise pretty for people eking out a hardscrabble being, but I didn't have a trouble with information technology, specially given how much there is to relish in the movie.
I've also read complaints that the film is maudlin, but Fonda's teary scenes, playing a homo who lives for his "babies," seemed right on target to me and non overdone.
As a devoted WALTONS fan I used to have more problem with the picture, especially unnecessarily "un-WALTONS-like" crass moments which seem out of keeping with the pic's overall tone. However, those scenes impacted me less revisiting the motion-picture show for the first fourth dimension in many years, while I enjoyed the film's look and its great bandage more. I at present set up bated my WALTONS preconceptions and relish the original movie appearance of Hamner'southward family unit on its ain terms. I've seen the film multiple times, but have never enjoyed it more than I did today.
Kym Karath is specially adorable equally one of the youngest Spencer children, Pattie-Cake, who idolizes her big blood brother Clay. Later that year she played Doris Twenty-four hours and James Garner's daughter in THE THRILL OF IT ALL (1963). Her best-known screen advent was every bit Gretl in THE SOUND OF MUSIC (1965). It's fun to note that in SPENCER'S Mountain Karath's older sis Becky is played past Veronica Cartwright, while in THE Audio OF MUSIC her older sister Brigitta is played by Veronica's sis Angela.
This movie was filmed in Panavision by Charles Lawton. It runs 118 minutes.
Blu-ray extras include the trailer, footage of the Wyoming premiere, and brief footage of Henry Fonda and James MacArthur being interviewed.
The widescreen Warner Archive Blu-ray is really cute. Recommended.
Thanks to the Warner Archive for providing a review copy of this Blu-ray. Warner Archive Blu-rays may be ordered from the WBShop or from any online retailers where DVDs and Blu-rays are sold.
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