--- title: 'The Quiet One (1948)' type: 'film' director: 'Sidney Meyers' released: '1948-01-01' runtime_minutes: 65 genres: - 'Documentary' - 'Drama' countries: - 'United States' canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-quiet-one-1948' review_count: 0 imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040717/' publisher: 'CinePixo' --- # The Quiet One (1948) 1948 · 65 min · Documentary, Drama · United States ## Synopsis The Quiet One is a 1948 American documentary film directed by Sidney Meyers. The documentary chronicles the rehabilitation of a young, emotionally disturbed African-American boy; it contains a commentary written by James Agee, and narrated by Gary Merrill. In his 1949 review, Bosley Crowther characterized the film succinctly:Out of the tortured experiences of a 10-year-old Harlem Negro boy, cruelly rejected by his loved ones but rescued by the people of the Wiltwyck School, a new group of local film-makers has fashioned a genuine masterpiece in the way of a documentary drama. ## Credits - **Director:** [Sidney Meyers](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-meyers) - **Editor:** [Sidney Meyers](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-meyers) - **Screenplay:** [Helen Levitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-levitt) - **Director of Photography:** [Helen Levitt](https://cinepixo.com/people/helen-levitt) - **Original Music Composer:** [Ulysses Kay](https://cinepixo.com/people/ulysses-kay) - **Producer:** [Janice Loeb](https://cinepixo.com/people/janice-loeb) ## Cast - [Don Thompson](https://cinepixo.com/people/don-thompson-3) - [Clarence Cooper, Jr.](https://cinepixo.com/people/clarence-cooper-jr) - [Estelle Evans](https://cinepixo.com/people/estelle-evans) - [Sidney Meyers](https://cinepixo.com/people/sidney-meyers) - [Gary Merrill](https://cinepixo.com/people/gary-merrill) ## Criticism on CinePixo No reviews published yet. Source: https://cinepixo.com/movies/the-quiet-one-1948 Film facts: Wikidata (Q7759101); synopsis from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Reviews, themes and notes are the work of this site's members.