I Finally Saw the End of the Movie!


When I was a kid in the 60’s, my brother, sister, and I started watching the movie, The Boy With Green Hair. About halfway through the movie, my sweet staunch, grandmother came into the room, turned off the television, and said it was time for cookies. This picture of grandmother turning off the movie seems to have affected my sister and I in similar ways. Years later, when I mentioned my grandmother turning off the movie and wondering what happened to the boy with green hair, my sister said she also remembered that day and wondered what happened in the rest of the story. 

 

While searching for the movie, I learned there was a lot of controversy around showing posters of war orphans and suffering children. Did my grandmother turn off the movie because of the anti-war message or because we watched an hour of television? Makes me wonder, but it was probably too much television.

 

With the movie’s new release in 2023, I was able to find it streaming on Prime Video and rented it. I finally got to see the end of the movie. I thought the boy’s hair turned green because of a science experiment, but the reason was more fantasy than science.

 

Written in 1948 the story brings up the fears of total annihilation after the introduction of nuclear bombs in World War 2 and the following cold war and fear of communists.

 

“The movie's director, Joseph Losey, producer, Adrian Scott, and writer were all put on the Hollywood blacklist and labeled Communists.” 

 

The story is a fanciful tale of a boy who is bullied for being a war orphan and ends up wanting to share his message of how war is dangerous for children and really everyone. What does green hair have to do with raising awareness of the dangers of war? Some reviewers are still confused, but if you see the movie, you will decide for yourself. 

 

I don’t think kids today would be interested in this movie, but apparently, it got my attention. It was even in technicolor, which was a big deal at the time.



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