Sonny Boy (1989 film)

Sonny Boy
Directed by Robert Martin Carroll[1]
Produced by Ovidio G. Assonitis
Written by Graeme Whifler
Starring David Carradine
Paul L. Smith
Brad Dourif
Conrad Janis
Sydney Lassick
Alexandra Powers
Steve Carlisle
Robert Broyles
Christopher Bradley[2]
Music by Carlo Maria Cordio
Cinematography Roberto D'Ettorre Piazzoli
Edited by Claudio M. Cutry
Production
company
Distributed by Triumph Releasing Corporation
Release date
 22 March 1989 (1989-03-22)
Running time
 96 min.
Country United States
Italy
Language English

Sonny Boy (Italian: Il dono del silenzio) is a 1989 American black comedy-drama thriller film directed by Robert Martin Carroll.[3] The musical score was composed by Carlo Maria Cordio. It stars David Carradine, Paul L. Smith, Brad Dourif, Conrad Janis, Sydney Lassick, Alexandra Powers and Steve Carlisle.[4][5] David Carradine wrote the film's theme song, "Paint", which he performs in the film.

Plot summary

In 1970, Harmony, a small town in New Mexico, is run by a small-time crime boss named Slue, who accepts the delivery of a Lincoln Continental car stolen by his henchmen Weasel, who brings it after killing a couple who was travelling with their child. When the crime boss finds the couple's baby in the backseat he wants to kill him, but he is stopped by his transvestite “wife”, Pearl. Slue decides to keep the baby - which Pearl names “Sonny Boy” - but he cuts out the boy’s tongue and raises him as a mute accomplice in their crimes, training and treating him like a wild dog, and sending Sonny Boy to kill anyone who wants to steal from or opposes Slue's grip over the town. When the grown Sonny Boy (now an 18 years old man), escapes from his "lair" and tries to make contact with the outside world, the attention he draws to his warped family results in darkly-humored mayhem.

Cast

Legacy

Grave of David Carradine at Forest Lawn Hollywood Hills, with the quote from "Paint": “I'm lookin' for a place where the dogs don't bite, and children don't cry and everything always goes just right. And brothers don't fight.”

Carradine wrote and performed the theme songs for at least two movies that he starred in, Americana and Sonny Boy. The first line from the Sonny Boy theme, "Paint" (which he wrote while filming Americana in Drury, Kansas, in 1973), is engraved on his headstone, as an epitaph.[15]

References

  1. ↑ "Sonny Boy 1990 Directed by Robert Martin Carroll". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  2. ↑ "Sonny Boy (1989) DVD (VHS VIDEO PAL)". amazon.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  3. ↑ "Films directed by Robert Martin Carroll". letterboxd.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  4. ↑ "Film Review: Sonny Boy (1989)". horrornews.net. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  5. ↑ "Sonny Boy movie". filmaffinity.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  6. ↑ "Sonny Boy (1989 film". horrorview.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  7. ↑ "Sonny Boy". csfd.cz. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  8. ↑ "Sonny Boy (1989)". moviemeter.nl. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  9. ↑ "Synalek (1989)". filmweb.pl. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  10. ↑ "Sonny Boy (1989)". cinemagia.ro. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  11. ↑ "Sonny Boy casting". allocine.fr. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  12. ↑ "Sonny Boy (Blu-ray) reviews". dreadcentral.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  13. ↑ "THE 25TH ANNIVERSARY PROJECT – SONNY BOY (1989)". dailygrindhouse.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  14. ↑ "Sonny Boy (1989) Movie Review". horrorphilia.com. Retrieved 2017-10-09.
  15. ↑ David Carradine Grave Marker December 7, 2009 Radar online
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