Warrendale

1967 · 101 MIN · IMDB 7.6 · 619 VOTES · DIR. Allan King

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Overview

This ground-breaking cinéma-vérité classic documents five weeks in the lives of twelve residents of a home for emotionally disturbed children. It is the first in the form that King later described as actuality drama. All the action is spontaneous and undirected, with neither interviews nor narration. The theme is the outrage of life. The children asked the filmmakers, Why is it that whenever pictures of us are put in the papers, our faces are blacked out. What is so awful about us that we cant be seen? They wanted to be filmed so that they could be seen.

Dialogue Timeline — 1,653 lines

A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE

00:00:50 [Engine Revs]
00:06:58 - Yes, you are. - No.
00:12:01 - No? What would you like? - I don't want anything. I'm not hungry.
00:15:43 Well, let me ask you a simple question. Why did you hold her this morning?
00:19:34 [Terry] Let's put Tony on the floor. That's the best place for him.
00:23:14 - [Girl] Can I shut that window? It's getting cold in here. - [Walter] So what are you saying that about?
00:26:57 You made me cross them out.
00:30:24 "Hope you are feeling a lot better. I'm feeling a lot better now and I'm back in my diving.
00:33:35 Now, you unfold it properly and give it to me.
00:37:32 - No, it was-- - Cheaters have to start over again.
00:40:55 "Finally he came to a concrete highway and started up the middle of it...
00:44:50 and he gave the king the secret weapon that he had.
00:49:06 I was crying about her, and I was crying about you...
00:54:05 [Crying]
00:58:55 It's not as if she was old or falling away or wearing away, this kind of thing.
01:03:10 - What? - Did they take off?
01:07:06 then all of a sudden today she's dead.
01:10:44 I wanna be dead!
01:15:55 - We know it's hard. - If it was my relative, I'd be worrying, but she's not.
01:19:44 So don't think I am.
01:23:17 No nonsense! No nonsense!
01:26:51 Don't let him get you going.
01:30:53 And just whenever you feel like crying, you need to cry.
01:35:35 "to raise us from the death of sin unto the life of righteousness...

Cast & Characters

Dialogue Record

Lines indexed1,653
Dialogue density16.4 lines / min
First line00:00:50
Final line01:35:35

Production Record

DirectorAllan King
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes619