Daniel and The Towers is a television film featuring the famous folk art masterpiece, the Watts Towers (located in the Watts neighborhood of Los Angeles), and their creator Simon Rodia's friendship with a 10-year-old neighborhood boy.
The story itself, and the friendship it describes, are fiction; however, Simon Rodia did build the towers. Some of the neighborhood situations that the film portrays are factually based.
Plot
Cast
In Credits Order
Crew
Writers
In Alphabetical Order
Anton Kline
Jessie Nelson
Camille Thomasson
Stephen Tolkin
Producers
Christopher Chase: Associate Producer
Judith James: Producer (as Judith Rutherford James) Michael D. Pariser: Line Producer
Original Music
Dennis Dreith
Cinematography
Tom Hurwitz
Film Editing
Norman Hollyn
Casting
Vicki Hillman
Production Design
John Ivo Gilles
Costume Design
Heidi Freundlich Gilles (as Heidi Freundlich-Gilles)
Makeup Department
Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Hair Assistant (as Marietta Carter) Marietta Carter-Narcisse: Makeup Assistant (as Marietta Carter) Robin Siegel: Hair Stylist Robin Siegel: Makeup Artist
Distribution Information
The drama, under the WonderWorks Family Movie tag, came to television in 1987 and was released on VHS in 1992 .
Runtime: 61 min
Country: United States
Language: English
Color: Color
Awards
The movie was nominated by the Young Artist Awards in 1988 as "Best Television Family Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show" and Miguel Alamo was nominated for "Best Young Actor Starring in a Television Drama Special, Movie of the Week or Variety Show".