The Quiet One

(1948)

65 minutes.

Black Cast / Drama / Documentary

Directed by Sidney Meyers

Narrated by Gary Merrill

Cast: Donald Thompson, Clarence Cooper, Sadie Stockton, Estelle Evans and Paul Baucum

The story of a lonely young boy growing up in Harlem. Using a semi-documentary technique, the film-makers realistically capture the hostile environment which leads the boy to delinquency. The youth is sent to Wiltwyck School for rehabilitation, where a psychiatrist and counselor try to break through the wall of silence which the boy uses to hide his fear and bitterness.