Directed by:
Arthur HillerCinematography:
Sam LeavittComposer:
Leith StevensCast:
Dean Stockwell, Barbara Billingsley, Virginia Christine, Natalie Trundy, John Larch, Hugh Sanders, Isabel Withers, Gail Bonney, Stephen Roberts (more)Plots(1)
Former child actor Dean Stockwell makes his first grown-up appearance in The Careless Years. Stockwell plays a mixed-up high schooler who wishes to marry Natalie Trundy, but the girl's parents (played by John Stephenson and Barbara "June Cleaver" Billingsley) feel the couple should complete school first. Dean and Natalie impulsively run off to elope, while Natalie's anguished parents inaugurate a nationwide search for the wayward kids. Though it is fairly clear that Dean and Natalie have gotten to know each other intimately during their flight, they meekly return home and agree to "wait" until school is out. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Dean Stockwell
USA
Best movies:
Paris, Texas (1984)
The Rainmaker (1997)
Blue Velvet (1986)
Barbara Billingsley
USA
Best movies:
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Act of Violence (1948)
Airplane! (1980)
Virginia Christine
USA
Best movies:
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Natalie Trundy
USA
Best movies:
The Monte Carlo Story (1956)
Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation (1962)
Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970)
John Larch
USA
Best movies:
Dirty Harry (1971)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
Hell to Eternity (1960)
Hugh Sanders
USA
Best movies:
To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)
Storm Warning (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
Isabel Withers
USA
Best movies:
You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
To Each His Own (1946)
Gail Bonney
USA
Best movies:
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Name of the Game (1968) (series)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
Stephen Roberts
USA
Best movies:
Miracle of Fatima (1952)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Claire Carleton
USA
Best movies:
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Westward the Women (1951)
Jack Daly
USA
Best movies:
North by Northwest (1959)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
Elizabeth Slifer
USA
Best movies:
The Man from Bitter Ridge (1955)
Funny Face (1957)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Norman Ollestad
USA
Best movies:
Winchester '73 (1950)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
Robert Hyatt
USA
Best movies:
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Carbine Williams (1952)
High Wall (1947)