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The Great Santini
First Published: 1976
440 pages
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About The Movie
The film version of "The Great Santini" was "the little film that could" in 1980, a critically acclaimed adaptation that failed to find an audience -- it was briefly (and clumsily) retitled "The Ace," in an effort to pique the public´s interest -- until a groundswell of interest and the advent of pay-cable TV exposure prompted an Oscar campaign for the film´s stars.
As a result, "The Great Santini" was named one of the 10 best films of 1980 by the National Board of Review. Both Robert Duvall, as Bull Meecham, and Michael O´Keefe, as Ben, were nominated for Oscars in 1980 as Best Actor and Best Supporting Actor, respectively. Though neither won, the recognition made a star of Duvall, already an admired character actor, and it established O´Keefe as an important young talent (he was also nominated for the 1980 Golden Globe for Most Promising Male Newcomer). Though the acclaim did not make the film a hit, it gained a higher profile with the public, which established its steady and enduring popularity on home video.
Written and directed by Lewis John Carlino (The Fox, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Resurrection), the film is touchingly close to the novel, thoughtfully cast and filmed with care on location in South Carolina. Blythe Danner plays Lillian Meecham, with Lisa Jane Persky as the older daughter and, in a small role, David Keith, who would later star in the film version of Conroy´s "The Lords of Discipline."
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