Boy on a Dolphin (Film): 20th Century Fox, CinemaScope, Jean Negulesco, Samuel G. Engel, Screenplay - Softcover

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Boy on a Dolphin is a 1957 20th Century Fox romantic film set in Greece and made in CinemaScope. It was directed by Jean Negulesco and produced by Samuel G. Engel from a screenplay by Ivan Moffat and Dwight Taylor, based on the novel by David Divine. The film stars Alan Ladd, Clifton Webb and Sophia Loren with Alexis Minotis and Laurence Naismith. Hugo Friedhofer was nominated for the 1958 Academy Award in Best Music, Scoring category for his work. The cinematography was by Milton R. Krasner. The plot revolves around the attempts by two competing individuals - an archaeologist and a wealthy art collector - to retrieve an ancient Greek statue of a boy riding a dolphin from the bottom of the Aegean Sea. Ladd portrays the honest academic archaeologist, whose aim is to see to it that the statue is handed over to the rightful Greek authorities. Webb, on the other hand, plays a rich and unscrupulous grave-robber who wants to find the statue and keep it in his own private collection.