Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue (film) Little Boy Blue is a 1997 film directed by Antonio Tibaldi about a dysfunctional Texas family. The father, Ray (John Savage) is a Vietnam War veteran who was left impotent from a war injury. His high school son Jimmy West (Ryan Phillippe) tries to protect his two younger brothers from their abusive father. There is a family secret that gets revealed. Living in the backwoods of Texas is the dysfunctional and apparently incestuous family: a psychotic war veteran father, Ray West, a compliant wife, Kate, and a 19-year-old son, Jimmy, who is relegated to a warehouse
Little Boy Blue (poem) Little Boy Blue") to its present form. The poem was republished by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1889 in Field's "The Little Book of Western Verse". In 1976, Frank Jacobs wrote a parody of the poem for "Mad" magazine. An 1891 song setting of Field's poem by composer Ethelbert Nevin (1862–1901) was made popular by tenor John McCormack. A spoken-word recording (with accompaniment) was also made by Wink Martindale and it appears on his "Deck of Cards" album. <poem> The little toy dog is covered with dust, Time was when the little toy dog was new, And that was the time