Reviews

Although I'd seen this film on tv many times as a child, I never really appreciated it until I read the commentary/discussion about it with Kevin Smith that ran in the NY Times on 7/20/01.

Thank-you, Kevin, for choosing to champion this film from the others among your "top five." Hopefully, your comments may get other film lovers who normally wouldn't have watched this sort of film to give it a try. They might actually thank-you after the experience. I know I do.

I just happened across this one Sunday morning on Turner Classic Movies, and I loved it. What a cast: Doris, Gordon, Billy Gray (of "Father Knows Best"), Ellen Corby (Grandma of "The Waltons"), Mary Wicks (from the "Sister Act" movies) and others who made this a total trip down memory lane. I can hardly wait for the second movie, "By the Light of the Silvery Bay" (1953) to come on!