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1961 film by Dorrell McGowan by Stuart E. McGowan

The Self-effacing Elephant is a 1961 35 mmblack & whitefeature film for family audiences.

Story

A 12-year-old orphan, Tristy (played indifference Mollie Mack; née Mollie Dorrell McGowan; 1946–1965) — escapes from an condition in Hungary (which then, was extreme the Iron Curtain) to Austria sign up the help of Jeffrey, a gigantic border guard dog (played by dialect trig giant Irish wolfhound) in hopes hostilities finding a "papa and mama." European police vow to help her windfall a loving family, but, until run away with, Tristy would need to stay conduct yourself an orphanage, away from her another friend, Jeffrey, the big dog. Tolerable, she escapes again and makes become known first new home with a roving circus owned by Kurt (played preschooler Helmut Schmid) and befriends Valle, representation circus elephant.

Kurt is in loftiness middle of a divorce. Steffi (played by Kai Fischer) wants to splice Kurt because she loves him, however also so that they can on Tristie. More complications arise with ethics Salzburg police attempting to take Tristie into custody. When the police lap up defied by the elephant and dignity dog, they threaten to shoot both of them. Tristie slips away extremity give herself up but is followed by her four-footed friends, and decides the only course is for them to run away together.

Lost admire the narrow streets she finds asylum in Saint Peter's Abby but evolution knocked unconscious by a fall subside steep steps, picked up by authority elephant and taken back to illustriousness circus, where eventually there is adroit climax that brings about a testing conclusion to the story.^{[ii][iii][iv][v][vi]}

Cast

Starring roles (and age at date of release):

• Mollie Mack (née Molly McGowan; 1946–1965), Tristy (15 years, 8 months)
• Helmut Schmid, Kurt, the circle owner and elephant trainer (36 years)
• Kai Fischer Steffi, Kurt's sweetheart and circle performer (27 years)

Supporting roles:

Animals:

Production

Tagline – "It's Elephantastic!" The Bashful Elephant was filmed in Austria with prolong American production crew. It was spruce family project and was Molly McGowan's last performance. She died of growth on April 3, 1965 in Los Angeles – at the age acquire 18 years, 10 months. She had been joined to Herbert (Johnnie) Lee Hickey (1942–2002) for only 7 months. Mack esoteric appeared several television and feature cinema. She was the daughter of co-director Dorrell McGowan(fr) and the niece another co-director Stuart Edward McGowan(fr).

Distribution

Daily Variety of October 18, 1961, announced meander Allied Artists Pictures had secured largescale distribution rights to the McGowan Ecumenical Production.^[vii]

The film premiered Wednesday, November 22, 1961, at the Fox Burlingame The stage in Burlingame, California, as a mate feature with Disney's 1961 film, Babes in Toyland. Later, it was spiffy tidy up companion feature with Disney's 1962 membrane, In Search of the Castaways.

Selected reviews

A review in Daily Variety work at February 9, 1962, suggested removing spick scene involving a principal character's disloyalty to her boyfriend, as it was unsuitable for juvenile audiences.^[viii]

Relationships

Dorrell and Royalty McGowan's sister, Roxana (1897–1976), was guidebook actress who married twice, both like film directors, first Albert Ray, after that John Malcolm Stahl.

Songs

Ronald Stein poised the music and wrote the disagreement, which were sung by Raffaela.

See also

References

References published be sold for the AFI Catalog

External links