Free PFA pass ifyour hair is green! Preceded by short: The HouseI Live In (U.S., 1945). A short lesson in tolerance, delivered by Frank Sinatrasinging the classic ballad by Earl Robinson and Lewis Allan to an audience of"dead-end" street kids. Screenplay by Albert Maltz. Presented by FrankRoss, Mervyn LeRoy (RKO). (10 mins, B&W, 16mm, PFA Collection) Joseph Losey's first feature was a thought-provoking fable seen throughthe "simplicity" of a child's vision. Child actor Dean Stockwell playsa war orphan, Peter, who lives with a kindly old man, Gramps (Pat O'Brien). Peteris given to fantasies the adults find troublesome, and when his hair actuallychanges color, he becomes a pariah in the town. "An allegorical fantasy ofunusual charm, which addresses itself both to the wave of paranoia thataccompanied the Cold War and to everyday racism. When the little orphan mustsubmit to having his peculiar green hair shaven, it evokes the 'degradationrituals' inflicted by the House Committee on Un-American Activities." (TA,NB) The film holds an important place in Cold War Hollywood, not only for themany blacklisted people who worked on it but for the successful effort to protectthe final product from a rewrite ordered by mogul Howard Hughes after he boughtRKO.