| Johnny Holiday | |
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| Directed by | Willis Goldbeck |
| Screenplay by | Jack Andrews Willis Goldbeck Frederick Stephani |
| Story by | R.W. Alcorn |
| Produced by | R.W. Alcorn |
| Starring | William Bendix Stanley Clements Hoagy Carmichael Allen Martin Jr. Greta Granstedt Herbert Newcomb |
| Cinematography | Hal Mohr |
| Edited by | Richard Fritch |
| Music by | Franz Waxman |
Production company | Alcorn Productions |
| Distributed by | United Artists |
Release date |
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Running time | 92 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $800,000[1] |
| Box office | $600,000 (domestic rentals estimate)[1] |
Johnny Holiday is a 1949 Americancrime film directed byWillis Goldbeck and written by Jack Andrews, Willis Goldbeck, andFrederick Stephani. The film starsWilliam Bendix,Stanley Clements,Hoagy Carmichael, Allen Martin Jr.,Greta Granstedt, and Herbert Newcomb. The film was released on November 18, 1949, byUnited Artists.[2][3]
Johnny Holiday (Allen Martin Jr) is a fatherless boy whose mother (Greta Granstedt) is ill in hospital. He hero-worships the psychopathic teenager Eddie Duggan (Stanley Clements). Protecting the thieving Duggan, Johnny is sent to a reformatory in Indiana, where he is taken under the wing of Sgt Walker (William Bendix), the bluff but kindly man in charge of the school farm. Walker asks for Holiday to be assigned to him when he realises that Holiday has a natural aptitude for caring for horses, as well as an innocent, sweet nature.
When Duggan turns up in the reformatory, he persuades Holiday to break out with him. At a Christmas entertainment featuring Indiana-bornHoagy Carmichael, Duggan strong-arms Holiday into an attempt at escape. Holiday faces an ethical choice between Duggan, his former hero, and Walker, who has stood by him and taken care of him, even secretly bringing him to visit his mother…
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