Baxter!

Baxter!
Not the same as Love, Victor, no.
Production company	Anglo-EMI Film Distributors Group W Films Hanna-Barbera Productions Performing Arts
Distributor	National General Pictures
Release date	March 4, 1973
Run time	1:42:04
Starring	Patricia Neal Britt Ekland Lynn Carlin Jean-Pierre Cassel Scott Jacoby
Executive producer(s)	Howard G. Barnes John L. Hargreaves
Producer(s)	Arthur Lewis
Music composed by	Michael J. Lewis
Screenplay by	Reginald Rose
Director(s)	Lionel Jeffries
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Baxter! is a British-American drama film, based on the 1968 novel The Boy Who Could Make Himself Disappear by Kinn Platt. It was produced by Anglo-EMI Film Distributors, Group W Films, Hanna-Barbera Productions, and Performing Arts, and distributed by National General Pictures on March 4, 1973. It was written by Reginald Rose, produced by Arthur Lewis, and directed by Lionel Jeffries.

An American boy with a speech impediment moves with his mother to England after his parents get a divorce. He quickly befriends a young model, her French boyfriend, and the local school speech therapist, who helps him overcome his problems, which he doesn't get from his distant mother.

Characters

Legend
Character debut	Speaking debut	Ep. debut	No lines	Mentioned

In order of appearance:

Character	Actor
Passenger	Mavis Villiers
Roger Baxter	Scott Jacoby
Mrs. Baxter	Lynn Carlin
Steward	Unavailable
George	George Tovey
Tony Baxter	Paul Maxwell
Chris Bentley	Britt Ekland
Dewey Lewis
Nemo Newman	Sally Thomsett
Mr. Rawling	Paul Eddington
Jean-Pierre Cassel	Roger Tunnell
Fred Astaire
Betty Davis
Aunt Ingrid
Chris's father
Doctor Roberta Clemm	Patricia Neal
James Cagney
Walt Whitman
Feldman	Unavailable
Humphrey Bogart (photo)	N/A
Mick Jagger (photo)	N/A
Robert Redford (photo)	N/A
W.C. Fields (photo)	N/A
Nemo's father
Flip Newman	Frances Bennett
Ted Filshie	Ronald Leigh-Hunt
Poker player	Larry Cross
Poker player	Hal Galili
Poker player	J.M. Bay
Poker player	Reed De Rouen
Poker player	Frank Mann
Poker player	David Cargill
Roger Tunnell's mother
George Chaucer
Taxi driver #1	Nicholas Smith
Taxi driver #2	John Caulfield
Doctor Walsh	Ian Thompson
Nurse Kennedy	Dorothy Alison
Patient	Unavailable
Doctor Barbour	Frank Singuineau

Organizations

• Nazis (mentioned)

Locations

• Earth
  • England
    • London
      • Baxter residence
      • School
      • Newman residence
      • Hospital
  • United States
    • California
      • Beverly Hills (mentioned)
      • Los Angeles
      • Las Vegas (mentioned)
  • Belgium (mentioned)
  • France (mentioned)
    • Paris (mentioned)
  • British Overseas Territory (indirectly mentioned)
    • Bermuda (mentioned)
• The Moon (photo)

Objects

• English Cooking, French Style
• Time

Vehicles

• Roger Tunnell's car
• The Lady Christina

Music

The music was composed and conducted by Michael J. Lewis.

Crew credits

• Art director: Anthony Pratt
• Film editor: Teddy Darvas
• Photographer: Geoffrey Unsworth

Release

Dates are in order of release:

• United States: March 4, 1973 in New York City

Behind the scenes

• Mrs. Baxter mentions Casablanca, which is unrelated to the previous scene in Nemo's bedroom with a photo of the film's star Humphrey Bogart.

Errors

• The Baxters are from Beverly Hills and Los Angeles.

In other languages

Language	Name	Meaning

Home availability

• In the United Kingdom and Ireland:
  • September 1, 2014: Network Distributing releases Baxter! on DVD.
• In the United States:
  • September 6, 2022: Reel Vault releases Baxter! on DVD.