Dorothy Scott Movies

This quietly compelling film explores the hardships and anxieties of high school with intelligence, sensitivity, warmth and humor. Chris Makepeace stars as a shy, bookish student who has recently moved to Chicago and begun a new school. There he finds himself the target of a group of punks led by Matt Dillon (ideally cast as the weasel-like bully), who threaten him each day to turn over his lunch money for protection...or else. When he stands up to them, he nearly loses his dental work before being saved by Ricky Lindemann (Adam Baldwin), a hulking loner rumored to have murdered his own brother. Makepeace offers the boy a job as his bodyguard, and the two become unlikely friends -- that is, until the ousted bullies find a champion of their own who challenges Lindemann. When Lindemann refuses to fight back, he disappears into reclusion, and the bullying begins anew, worse than ever. Makepeace then learns the truth about Lindemann's past: he did indeed kill his brother, but the death was an accident while the two young boys were playing with a gun, and Lindemann lives tortured by guilt as a result. Just when things seem at their worst, the bodyguard returns to face his nemesis as Makepeace and Dillon square off in the final showdown of good versus evil. The real strength of the film is its handling of the relationships between its characters, particularly between Makepeace and Baldwin, and Makepeace and his family (Martin Mull and Ruth Gordon). My Bodyguard is light but thoughtful entertainment with a Rocky theme that's suitable for the entire family. ~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide

This heavy-handed, English-made drama (adapted from the novel by E.E. Mills Young) depended far too much on its title cards to advance the plot. Pamela and Herbert Arnott (Ivy Duke and Julian Royce) have been happily married for six years. Then it turns out that they aren't really married at all -- Arnott is still wed to his first wife, who refused to give him a divorce. Although he tells Pamela that she is the only woman he has ever loved, she refuses to forgive him and only stays for the children's sake. The couple's relationship becomes so strained that Arnott begins a flirtation with the governess and when he disappears, Pamela assumes that the two of them have run off together. But George Dare, an admirer of Pamela's (Guy Newall, who also directed), finds out that Arnott has fallen seriously ill and is in the hospital. Since she has discovered that his first wife has died, Pamela goes to him, and they get legally married at last. Dare, who has lost Pamela by revealing the whereabouts of Arnott, moves on. ~ Janiss Garza, All Movie Guide