Boy on a Dolphin

1957

Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance

3
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 44% · 2 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 44% · 250 ratings
IMDb Rating 6.2/10 10 2120 2.1K

artefact gold based on novel or book diving dolphin athens, greece

Plot summary

Phaedra is a poor sponge diver on the lovely Greek isle of Hydra. While diving, she discovers an ancient brass and gold statue of a boy riding a dolphin, which is said to have the magical power to grant wishes. Her shiftless boyfriend wants to sell it to an unscrupulous art collector, but Phaedra wants to give it to anthropologist Jim Calder, who would return it to the Greek government.

Director

Jean Negulesco Photo
Jean Negulesco

Top cast

Sophia Loren Photo
Sophia Loren as Phaedra
Gertrude Flynn Photo
Gertrude Flynn as Miss Dill
Clifton Webb Photo
Clifton Webb as Victor Parmalee
Alan Ladd Photo
Alan Ladd as Dr. James Calder
720p.BluRay
1023.85 MB
1280*544
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 51 min
Seeds 4

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by gilbert-burbach 7 / 10

An exotic on-location underwater thriller!

This film was one of 1957's top grossers mainly due to the fact that in those years the public wanted exotic European location shooting and the film certainly does a good job of showing Greece and Sophia Loren who is ravishing.The story is a thriller.Alan Ladd plays a archaeologist ,Sophia a poor sponge diver and Clifton Webb an unscrupulous collector of art.The plot is not really that important.What counts is the scenery and Sophia.Alan Ladd whom I have always considered as a very good actor, but underrated by critics does a good job,like always(he always tried his best), all the more so that his partner was really very much taller than him and he suffered from that.I don't understand why everybody made so much fuss about Alan Ladd's size.He was just as short or tall as Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney or even George Raft.The film is very enjoyable.
Reviewed by gilbert-burbach 7 / 10

An exotic on-location underwater thriller!

This film was one of 1957's top grossers mainly due to the fact that in those years the public wanted exotic European location shooting and the film certainly does a good job of showing Greece and Sophia Loren who is ravishing.The story is a thriller.Alan Ladd plays a archaeologist ,Sophia a poor sponge diver and Clifton Webb an unscrupulous collector of art.The plot is not really that important.What counts is the scenery and Sophia.Alan Ladd whom I have always considered as a very good actor, but underrated by critics does a good job,like always(he always tried his best), all the more so that his partner was really very much taller than him and he suffered from that.I don't understand why everybody made so much fuss about Alan Ladd's size.He was just as short or tall as Humphrey Bogart or James Cagney or even George Raft.The film is very enjoyable.
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