A Little Worm

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A Little Worm
Directed by Marc Benardout
Written byMarc Benardout
Christopher West
Produced byPamela Asbury
Marc Benardout
Starring Vincent Ricotta
Issy Van Randwyck
CinematographyDavid Kerr
Edited by Nicholas Wayman-Harris
Music byJulian Maurice Moore
Production
companies
Marc Benardout Films
Will van der Vlugt Film Productions
Distributed by Buena Vista International
Release date
  • 1 March 1995 (1995-03-01)
(with Ed Wood)
Running time
10 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

A Little Worm is a 1995 British short film directed by Marc Benardout. It stars Vincent Riotta and Issy Van Randwyck. The short film was distributed theatrically by Buena Vista with the feature film Ed Wood by director Tim Burton. It was shown on television by Channel 4 on their series "The Shooting Gallery".

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Plot

In 1929, in Chicago, 12-year-old Larry Adler was heralded as a prodigy of the harmonica. Having left home for a life on the road and stage, Adler tagged along with his musical buddies to a party thrown at the apartment of underworld leader Al Capone.

When Capone spies the Young upstart he chastises him for turning up uninvited in front of all of his guests. In a moment of raw nerves, young Larry is unfazed and as a result, Capone's temper is thwarted and he rewards the boy with a drink at his table and an anecdote of jury bribery that went south. Unfortunately, this was a little above young Larry's head but he lived to tell the tale and won kudos from his peers.

Cast

Festivals

Sinner was chosen as an official selection in the Barcelona Film Festival, Hamptons Film Festival, Houston Worldfest, New York Albany Film Festival, Cork Film Festival, British Short Film Festival, Wrexham Film Festival (Wales), Huy Film Festival (Belgium), and Kino Film Festival.

Awards


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