Caressed (1964)
January 1, 1964Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Bob Howay
Tom
Angela Gann
Elaine
Lanny Beckman
Bill
Robert A. Silverman
Al
Carol Pastinsky
Kathy
Larry Kent
Director
Jack Dale
Composer
Shelah Reljic
Editor
Virginia Dunsaith
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Sweet Substitute, retitled Caressed in the United States, is a Canadian drama film, directed by Larry Kent and released in 1964.The film centres on Tom (Bob Howay), a high school student whose efforts to secure an academic scholarship to university are complicated by his sexual compulsions. He is caught in a love triangle between Elaine (Angela Gann), a prim and proper girl who is saving herself for marriage, and Kathy (Carol Pastinsky), a more sexually available girl whom Tom impregnates.It was a Canadian Film Award nominee for Best Picture at the 17th Canadian Film Awards in 1965, but did not win.
It was part of a retrospective screening of Kent's films, alongside The Bitter Ash, When Tomorrow Dies and High, which screened at a number of venues in 2002 and 2003, including Cinematheque Ontario in Toronto, the Pacific Cinémathèque in Vancouver and the Canadian Film Institute in Ottawa.