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Based on real events reported in Japanese newspapers in 1966 [1] Boy follows the title character, Toshio Omura, across Japan, as he is forced to participate in a dangerous scam to support his dysfunctional family. Toshio's father, Takeo Omura, is an abusive, lazy veteran, who forces his wife, the boy's stepmother, Takeko Tamiguchi, to feign ...
1968–1969: ABC: Based on the 1966 feature film of the same name: 20th Century Fox Television: 17 Aquaman: 1968–1970: CBS: DC Comics: Based on Aquaman: National Periodical Publications: 36 The Archie Show: 1968–1969: CBS: Based on Archie comic book series: The Archie Company 17 The Batman/Superman Hour
Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here is a 1969 American Western film based on the true story of a Chemehuevi–Paiute Native American named Willie Boy [2] and his run-in with the law in 1909 in Banning, California, United States. [3] The film is an adaptation of the 1960 book Willie Boy: A Desert Manhunt by Harry Lawton.
A Boy and His Dog is a cycle of narratives by author Harlan Ellison. The cycle tells the story of an amoral boy (Vic) and his telepathic dog (Blood), who work together as a team to survive in the post-apocalyptic world after a nuclear war. The original 1969 novella was adapted into the 1975 film A Boy and His Dog directed by L.Q. Jones. [1]
A Boy Named Charlie Brown is a 1969 American animated musical comedy-drama film, produced by Cinema Center Films, distributed by National General Pictures, and directed by Bill Melendez with a screenplay by Charles M. Schulz. [5] It is the first feature film based on the Peanuts comic strip. [6]
His follow-up memoir Some Boys (1969) focused entirely on the boys he had met around the world, while working as a foreign correspondent. His last book, Sicilian Vespers , about Favignana , where he lived from 1966 to 1973, together with a selection of his personal correspondence and a brief biography, was posthumously published, following his ...
Run Wild, Run Free (also known as The White Colt and Philip) is a 1969 British drama film directed by Richard C. Sarafian and starring John Mills. The film was written by David Rook, based on his novel The White Colt, and shot on location in Dartmoor, Devon, England. [1] [2] [3]
Kes (/ k ɛ s /) is a 1969 British coming-of-age drama film directed by Ken Loach (credited as Kenneth Loach) and produced by Tony Garnett, based on the 1968 novel A Kestrel for a Knave, written by the Hoyland Nether–born author Barry Hines. [3]