Columbia Pictures
Directed by Norman Foster and Abby Berlin
My rating: 3 stars out of 4
IMDb
(DVD, Sony Screen Classics by Request)
William Holden stumbles upon a shack with five abandoned children one day while fishing. He feeds and clothes them, despite having no job or source of income. Before long he is chopping wood for money and sending them off to school. He gets in a tussle with the rich man in town and is charged with assault. Pretty Coleen Gray is the young but rich girl who falls in love with him. It's pure Hollywood hokum, but with a heart, and has a strange way of pulling you in to the story. The little girl of the brood is perhaps too cute, but the rest aren't really that annoying. Holden relishes the nice guy role and sings catchy songs.
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