Franklin — Where the Boys Are Character Profile

About Franklin

A Yale student who manipulates Melanie by pretending to love her while only seeking sex. He maliciously sets up a rendezvous with Dill, falsely claiming Melanie is promiscuous, which leads to her traumatic experience.

Character Facts

Played by

Rory Harrity

Appears in

Where the Boys Are (1960)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (2)

• Franklin — Conflict Manipulator And Victim — Melanie Tolman (Yvette Mimieux)

  Franklin's deception directly causes Melanie's central traumatic crisis.

  Franklin pretends to love Melanie while seeking sex, then tells Dill that Melanie is easy and arranges the motel ambush.

• Franklin — Alliance Co-conspirator — Dill (John Brennan)

  Their coordinated deception creates the ambush against Melanie.

  Franklin tells Dill that Melanie is easy and sets up the motel rendezvous so that Dill will encounter her there.

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• Ryder Smith (George Hamilton)
• Melanie Tolman (Yvette Mimieux)
• Lola Fandango (Barbara Nichols)
• Tuggle Carpenter (Paula Prentiss)
• TV Thompson (Jim Hutton)
• Stout Man on Beach (Ted Berger)
• Dill (John Brennan)
• Police Captain (Chill Wills)
• Basil (Frank Gorshin)
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• Nightclub Patron (uncredited) (Bert Stevens)