In a street called Blue in a very poor neighborhood in Paris, Monsieur Ibrahim (Omar Shariff) is an old Muslin Turkish owner of a small market. He becomes friend of the teenager Jewish Moises, tenderly nicknamed Momo (Pierre Boulanger), who lives with his father in a small apartment on the other side of the street. Monsieur Ibrahim gives paternal love and teaches the knowledge of the Koran to the boy, receiving in return love and respect.
Nominated for Golden Globe.
Another 4 wins
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4 nominations
Ronald Reagan titled his 1965 autobiography after his biggest line in the film version of Kings Row: "Where's the rest of me?"
The city depicted in the film is based on the actual Mid-Missouri town of Fulton, book writer Henry Bellamann's home.
Drake McHugh:
Randy, Randy - Where's the rest of me...?
Drake McHugh, as a boy:
[to Parris, as Dr. Gordon operates on a friend's father] Let's get out of here! I never heard a grown man scream and holler like this before, did you?
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
Well, Mitchell, I don't know at all your approach to medicine. Perhaps you regard it as an opportunity to become one of those bedside manners with a list of proper pills to give the patient - particularly when you don't know what is the matter with him. Or perhaps your aim is to become an eminent carpenter with a knife and a chisel and a saw. Perhaps even you'll flow over with the nobility of relieving humanity's suffering. I'll tell you my approach to medicine! It is a game in which man pits his brains against the forces of destruction and disease. In the beginning I don't expect you to participate in the game. You'll only listen and accept. You will study and you will make notes and you will memorize... and you will do all this only because I tell you to.
Col. Skeffington:
[Referring to the dying Madame von Eln] When she passes, how much passes with her! - a whole way of life, a way of gentleness and honor and dignity. These things are going, Henry, and they may never come back to this world.
Madame Marie von Eln:
I only know that you have to judge people by what you find them to be and not by what other people say they are.
Madame Marie von Eln:
Don't cry, Anna, for me. It will be worse for him. My troubles are almost over and his are just beginning. Growing up is so difficult, Anna. The disappointments and the heartbreaks, the frightening problems, the menaces and cruelties of the world. How often have I wished that his mother will live or his father, or that I were his mother! It isn't fair that a young boy should be brought up by an old woman who will leave him when he needs her most.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
Well, a little loneliness won't hurt you to speak of... you get used to it.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
Oh, have you read this?
Parris Mitchell:
Yes, sir. I didn't understand it entirely, I'm afraid.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
Well, it's a new field. They've even a new word for it: psychiatry.
Parris Mitchell:
It's something I never thought about. I mean, for a doctor to want to cure diseases of people's minds instead of their bodies. I suppose it's a pretty big field, sir.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
Maybe too big. Maybe a hundred years off.
Col. Skeffington:
[referring to Drake] Funny thing, I sort of like that boy. Bold as brass, but he's the only young man in town beside Parris Mitchell who has grace enough to say 'sir' to his elders.
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
In the 13th Century, man was happier and more comfortable in his world than he is now. I'm speaking of psychic man and his relationship with his whole universe.
Parris Mitchell:
I get it, sir. Everything was so simple then
Dr. Alexander Q. Tower:
That was it, Parris. That was it. But in this modern complicated world, man breaks down under the strain, the bewilderment, disappointment, and disillusionment. He gets lost, goes crazy, commits suicide. I don't know what's going to happen to this world in the next hundred years or so, but I can guarantee you life isn't going to get any simpler. Worry and doubt bring on a bellyache. Mankind's building up the biggest psychic bellyache in history.
Drake McHugh:
What's the harm in a little kiss?
Randy Monaghan:
A little kiss? Suppose we find out?
Continuity: When Parris is speaking to his instructor in Vienna, Dr. Kendell strikes a match to light his pipe. In the next shot, the match has disappeared and there is no evidence that he lit the pipe.
Referenced in
A Jolly Good Furlough (1943)
Bette Davis: A Basically Benevolent Volcano (1983) (TV)
- Bette Davis mentions Ronald Reagan as "the man without the leg".
The Passion of Ayn Rand (1999)
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004)
Featured in
Between Two Worlds: Erich Wolfgang Korngold (2001) (TV)
- Scenes used in this documentary.
The 77th Annual Academy Awards (2005) (TV)