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Mattel Films is the film production division of Mattel originally formed on October 16, 2013, as Mattel Playground Productions as part of Mattel Global Brands, a unified media structural and strategy unit.
In May 1970, Radnitz and toy-maker Mattel formed a partnership to produce films marketed to children. My Side of the Mountain was a 1969 film about a boy who decides to leave the big city to spend a sabbatical in the woods to see if he can make it on his own.
View full company info for Radnitz/Mattel Productions. 1. Sounder (1972) G | 105 min | Drama, Family. 7.5. Rate this. 80 Metascore. The oldest son of a loving and strong family of black sharecroppers comes of age in the Depression-era South after his father is imprisoned for stealing food.
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Ebony Wright as Rebecca MorganDarryl Young as David Lee MorganRoger Ebert gave the film two stars. Richard Eder, reviewing the film for The New York Times, called it "unrelievedly didactic" and "a depressed kind of film, with a lot of gloominess and teeth-gritting".
Part 2, Sounder at IMDbPart 2, Sounder at Rotten TomatoesWhere the Lilies Bloom was based on Vera and Bill Cleaver’s 1969 novel of the same name, a finalist in the 1970 National Book Awards. Radnitz/Mattel Productions purchased the film rights in 1971 and hired Earl Hamner, Jr. to adapt the screenplay.
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Mar 7, 2024 · Official Trailer for Sounder (1972) from 20th Century Fox/ Radnitz/Mattel Productions via YouTube.com. Some of the biographical films nominated were adaptations of novels or plays. They dealt...
Sounder marked the first collaboration between Radnitz and toy company Mattel. A July 1971 Daily Variety news item stated that Mattel would back eight productions with budgets of $750,000-$1,000,000 each.
