A Dangerous Age

A Dangerous Age
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Directed bySidney J. Furie
Written bySidney J. Furie
StarringBen Piazza
Anne Pearson
Kate Reid
Austin Willis
Barbara Hamilton
CinematographyHerbert Alpert
Edited byDavid Nicholson
Music byPhil Nimmons
Release dates
  • September 9, 1957 (1957-09-09) (Toronto, Canada)
Running time
71 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$29,000 (Canadian)

A Dangerous Age is a 1957[1][2][3][4][5] film directed by Sidney J. Furie. It is Sidney J. Furie's[6][7] low-budget tale about young lovers (Ben Piazza and Anne Pearson) on the run from an uncaring adult world – they just want to get married but are thwarted at every turn – remains something of landmark in English-Canadian feature production.

According to the Canadian Film Encyclopedia "The first Canadian feature in many years to win praise at the Festival de Cannes and the Venice International Film Festival, it merited serious international critical attention and remains a landmark of Canadian film production. Its low-key, quasi-documentary style, evocative use of locations and what some British critics called its "honesty" stand in marked contrast to Hollywood’s "adolescent crisis" films of the same period."[8]

  1. ^ "Canadian Film History: 1939 to 1973". www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  2. ^ "Caine and Able". Literary Review of Canada. 2016-04-28. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  3. ^ https://llr.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44NTU_INST:NTU_VU10 [bare URL]
  4. ^ Rowlands, Paul. "AN INTERVIEW WITH SIDNEY J. FURIE (PART 1 OF 2)". Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  5. ^ Vlessing, Etan (2010-09-26). "DGC honors Furie with lifetime achievement". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  6. ^ "Daily Hive | Torontoist". dailyhive.com. Retrieved 2024-08-01.
  7. ^ Take One's Essential Guide to Canadian Film, ed. Wyndham Wise, University of Toronto Press, 2001, p. 83
  8. ^ Cite error: The named reference tiff was invoked but never defined (see the help page).