Review: 'The Wild Child'

In the summer of 1798 in a forest in the South of France, several hunters and their dogs captured a boy of 11 or 12, filthy and long-haired and walking on all fours. He landed in the National Institution for the Deaf and Dumb, where he was put on exhibition for the paying public -- a fate shared by the deformed Elephant Man decades later.

By Kevin Thomas

January 9, 2009