Cinema: Shore of a Dream

The Sand Castle (Jerome Hill; De Rochemont) is a gay and whimsical pipe-dream made of nothing more consequential than a boy's day at the beach. Turned loose while his mother goes shopping, the boy (nine-year-old Barry Cardwell) makes a routine protest at having to mind his kid sister (played by Barry's own sister, four-year-old Laurie), then jogs across the sand looking for adventure. Barry's luck is bad; he is pelted by a flock of children who have made themselves a fort. He wanders off moodily, trailed by his tiny blonde caboose. Then he finds a shovel, and inspiration strikes. He heaps...