Cinderella Liberty

Cinderella Liberty is a 1973 romantic drama film adapted by Daryl Ponicsan from his 1973 novel of the same name. The film tells the story of a sailor who falls in love with a prostitute and becomes a surrogate father for her 11yearold mixed race son. Produced and directed by Mark Rydell, the film stars James Caan, Marsha Mason and Eli Wallach, with a supporting cast that includes Kirk Calloway, Burt Young, Allyn Ann McLerie, Dabney Coleman, Jon Korkes and Allan Arbus. The title is derived from the plot point that the sailor, while receiving medical treatment at the Navy bases medical facility, is given what is called a Cinderella Liberty pass which allows him to freely leave the naval base as long as he is back by curfew. The film is one of two 1973 film adaptations of Ponicans novels, the other being The Last Detail.

John J. Baggs James Caan a peacetime sailor, and a WWII veteran, checks into the Naval bases medical facility for treatment. After he gets a clean bill of health, he finds out that he is unable to get paid or receive new orders because somehow the U.S. Navy has lost his file. While they continue to search for his lost file, he is able to come and go from the base until curfew with his Cinderella Liberty pass issued by the medical facility.One night in a bar, he spots an attractive woman hustling guys at a pool table. He challenges her himself and develops an interest in the woman, Maggie Marsha Mason, who turns out to be a prostitute living in a tenement with her biracial son, Doug Kirk Calloway. ........

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