Benjy

Name: Benjy
Director: Fred Zinnemann
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1951-01-01
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 6.167
Cast: Lee Aaker, Neville Brand, Helen Brown, Henry Fonda, Louis Lettieri

1951

10m

Documentary

Director: Fred Zinnemann

Writer: Stewart Stern

Overview

Benjy is a 1951 American short documentary film directed by Fred Zinnemann. It won an Oscar in 1952 for Documentary Short Subject. Henry Fonda narrates this short film about a boy who was handicapped from birth. An orthopedic pediatrician wants to provide a therapeutic regimen that could cure the child, a scoliosis patient, but first he needs to convince the boy's parents, who have rejected the child because of his disabilities.