GENE REYNOLDS – The Leather Strop Is Spared, The Spanking Hand Applied
Jason (Jay to his friends) is a strong-willed lad, which does not bode well in this encounter with his father, who is the self-righteous parson of a poor Ohio pioneer village in 19th Century America. For talking back and being disrespectful to his father, Jason earns himself a beating with his father’s leather strop (used to sharpen cut-throat razors and already seen in https://youtu.be/oUYteaEDaiY). At the last moment, Jason is spared the strop but given a severe spanking by his father’s hand.
Jason is played by Gene Reynolds, his father by Walter Huston, mother by Beulah Bondi, and Chauncey by Charles Peck; the source is self-evident from the information given. Gene Reynolds was an athletic boy whose first screen appearance, aged 11, was in the 1934 “Our Gang” short, “Washee Ironee”. A successful acting career developed from there, only interrupted by Second World War service in the Navy for four years, after which he returned to acting, mostly in the new medium of television. At the end of the 1950s, he switched to become a full-time TV director, later becoming a producer and most notably involved with “M*A*S*H” and “Lou Grant”. He died in early 2020 at the ripe old age of 96, after a very successful film & television career on both sides of the camera.
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