Details

Release year: 1963

Storyline

A teacher and a psychologist work with children at an institute for the mentally-imparied.

Top credits

Directors

John Cassavetes

Writers

Abby Mann

Cast

Burt Lancaster — Dr. Matthew Clark
Judy Garland — Jean Hansen
Gena Rowlands — Sophie Widdicombe
Steven Hill — Ted Widdicombe

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Did you know

• Director John Cassavetes and Producer Stanley Kramer had many creative/economic differences and during the editing phase, Cassavetes was fired.

• Although the British Board of Film Censors passed the film with an "X" certificate on 15 February 1963, United Artists took over three years to release the film in the UK. It finally premiered at the London Pavilion on 14 July 1966 and ran two weeks. In spite of two major stars and The Times headline "film worth waiting four years for," the UK release was small and not always handled appropriately. In St Ives, Cornwall, it was booked for two days in December 1966 and shared the bill with St George and the 7 Curses.

• A Child Is Waiting (1963) apparently went over budget by $500,000, which would have been the equivalent of the cost of Burt Lancaster salary.