Daniel and the Towers (1987)
1h 1m
Running Time
April 18, 1987Release Date
Daniel and the Towers (1987)
1h 1m
Running Time
April 18, 1987Release Date
Plot.
The story of Simon Rodia, the real-life artist who spent 30 years constructing Los Angeles' Watts Towers, a monument to Christopher Columbus, and his fictional relationship with Daniel, a young boy.
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Cast & Crew.
Miguel Alamo
Daniel Guerra
Shawn Harrison
Sean
Jimmy Yung
Liko
Montrose Hagins
Hellen Littlefield
Allan Arbus
Simon 'Sam' Rodia
Carmen Zapata
Consuelo Guerra
Paul Schneider
Director
Beulah Quo
Lynn Chow
Anton Kline
Writer
Michael McKean
Wexler Hatch
Jessie Nelson
Writer
Camille Thomasson
Writer
Liam Sullivan
Commissioner
Janice McElroy
Miss Williams
Stephen Tolkin
Writer
Judith James
Producer
Mary Lowitt
Customer at Store
Steven Camarillo
Rude Vacho 1
Telly Bilbrew
Rude Vacho 2
Anthony James Guttierrez
Rude Vacho 3
John Outterbridge
Postman
Tom Noble
Commissioner's Assistant
Norman Hollyn
Editor
Tom Hurwitz
Director of Photography
Details.
Wiki.
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.