Twentieth Century-Fox Film
Directed by Henry Levin
My rating: 2 stars out of 4
IMDb
(Turner Classic Movies)
Clifton Webb is a curmudgeon with a failing TV show. He hopes to save it by getting kids to watch, but it turns out he knows nothing about kids. In steps a cute kid with a speech impediment, who is also a Cub Scout and just in case that doesn't get enough sympathy also an orphan. Webb takes over as scoutmaster for a rowdy group of hellions in the basement of the local church. In the entirely predictable plot he wins them over, and vice versa. I suppose those pining for 1950s America when life revolved around scouting, patriotism and God will find this both nostalgic and inspiring, but it seems awfully naive and saccharine to me.
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