Dino *** (1957, Sal Mineo, Brian Keith, Susan Kohner, Pat DeSimone, Frank Faylen, Joe De Santis, Penny Santon, Richard Bakalyan) – Classic Movie Review 9854

Dino lobby card.

Director Thomas Carr’s 1957 film Dino stars Sal Mineo, who does his juvenile delinquent turn again (and very well too) in a solid, rather touching little drama based on script-writer Reginald Rose’s own 1956 TV play about a boy called Dino Minetta, who cannot reform after jail. Then his kid brother Tony Minetta (Pat DeSimone) asks him to join his robbery.

Brian Keith also stars as the social worker Larry Sheridan and Susan Kohner plays Shirley, the slum girl on Dino’s side.

Mineo had played the part on TV in 1956 as a one-hour play in the TV series Studio One in Hollywood, also with Pat DeSimone Tony Minetta.

Sal Mineo and Pat DeSimone in Dino (1957).

Also in the cast are Frank Faylen as Frank Mandel, Joe De Santis as Mr Minetta, Penny Santon as Mrs Minetta, Richard Bakalyan as Chuck, Mollie McCart, Cynthia Chenault [Cindy Robbins], Rafael Campos, Don C Harvey, Michael Mineo and Byron Foulger.

Mineo and Bakalyan both started their careers playing juvenile delinquents. Mineo acted in Rebel without a Cause. Bakalyan acted in The Delinquents (1957) and The Cool and the Crazy (1958).

It was distributed in a double bill at drive-in theaters with Omar Khayyam (1957).

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