Hand in Hand (1960)

Editor's Note Director Philip Leacock, praised for his handling of child actors, does another excellent job with the two young stars in this story about religious tolerance -- and intolerance. Loretta Parry is Rachel, a seven-year-old Jewish girl whose best friend and playmate Michael (Philip Needs) is exactly the same age. Michael has been raised in an Irish Catholic family, but neither child thinks very much about their religious differences. At least, not until certain biases begin to make their presence known. But Rachel and Michael's friendship is so strong that even when they visit each other's place of worship and are wholly intimidated by the strangeness of it all, they still remain best buddies. Interwoven with threads of wisdom that might be a little forced at times, this family-oriented drama is also enlivened by comic moments and good acting and directing that keep the story from slipping into saccharine clichés.

	John Gregson
	Derek Sydney
	Sybil Thorndike
	Loretta Parry
	Philip Needs
	Susan Reid - Co-Star
	Eric Francis - Co-Star
	Donald Tandy - Co-Star
	Stanley Black - Composer
	Sidney Harmon - Story
	Barbara Hicks - Co-Star
	Stratford Johns - Co-Star
	Miriam Karlin - Co-Star
	Barry Keegan - Co-Star
	Madge Ryan - Co-Star
	Freddie Young - Director of Photography
	Diana Morgan - Screenwriter
	Kathleen Byron - Co-Star
	Finlay Currie - Co-Star
	Arnold Diamond - Co-Star
	Denis Gilmore - Co-Star
	Philip Leacock - Director