Post by Kaz ~;~ on Mar 9, 2011 16:00:31 GMT -5
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Director: Albert Zugsmith
Writers: Gus Edson, Irwin Hasen
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Plot Summary:: Based on a popular comic strip, this touching children's drama centers on an adorable saucer-eyed Italian war orphan who sneaks into the U.S. by stowing away aboard a returning naval ship. He did this in part to be with the benevolent soldiers who showed him kindness on the Christmas Eve before the war ended. Once they dock in New York, poor Dondi's friends go their separate ways and he ends up lost and having several adventures alone until happiness and peace return in the form of one of the sailors.
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(Cast)
David Janssen ... Dealey
Patti Page ... Liz
Walter Winchell ... Himself
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Sergeant
Robert Strauss ... Sammy Boy
Arnold Stang ... Peewee
Louis Quinn ... Dimmy
Gale Gordon ... Colonel
Dick Patterson ... Perky
Susan Kelly ... Lt. Calhoun
John Melfi ... Jo-Jo
Bonnie Scott ... Gladdy
William Wellman Jr. ... Ted
Nola Thorp ... Candy
Joan Staley ... Sally
Director: Albert Zugsmith
Writers: Gus Edson, Irwin Hasen
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Plot Summary:: Based on a popular comic strip, this touching children's drama centers on an adorable saucer-eyed Italian war orphan who sneaks into the U.S. by stowing away aboard a returning naval ship. He did this in part to be with the benevolent soldiers who showed him kindness on the Christmas Eve before the war ended. Once they dock in New York, poor Dondi's friends go their separate ways and he ends up lost and having several adventures alone until happiness and peace return in the form of one of the sailors.
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(Cast)
David Janssen ... Dealey
Patti Page ... Liz
Walter Winchell ... Himself
Mickey Shaughnessy ... Sergeant
Robert Strauss ... Sammy Boy
Arnold Stang ... Peewee
Louis Quinn ... Dimmy
Gale Gordon ... Colonel
Dick Patterson ... Perky
Susan Kelly ... Lt. Calhoun
John Melfi ... Jo-Jo
Bonnie Scott ... Gladdy
William Wellman Jr. ... Ted
Nola Thorp ... Candy
Joan Staley ... Sally
