The Extraordinary Child applies his developing style to broad slapstick. His friends from the previous films and the director himself play out a riotous farce about an overgrown baby who steals his father’s cigars. Everyone mugs hilariously. The movie could be taken as another example of the Romantic notion of the artist as a monstrous child or misfit, or a parody of the same rather than the personal confessional statement seen so often in these film movements.
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Robert Benson
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Stan Brakhage
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Yvonne Fair
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Larry Jordan
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Lawrence Jordan
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Walter Newcomb
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Stan Brakhage Director
United States release November 12, 1954 · Produced in United States
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United States
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English
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
United States · November 12, 1954
Theatrical
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