Hardly more than a boy the young Lee Kinsolving does an exquisite balance of the tenderness, desire and poetry and bravado that is so difficult to make the role of the 16 year old Richard resonate. He succeeds and I've never seen another 'Richard' capture the central character of Eugene O'Neill's delicate and elusive comic valentine to the year 1906. Kinsolving died very young (in his 30's) and never achieved real stardom but enriched even guest roles on TV Westerns. That is Betty Field and Helen Hayes along with a young Norman Fell to round the cast. But the young Richard who is modeled on the poetic young O'Neill, makes them all come alive.
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