Watchable - just, but as the reviewers here before me have said, some interesting points. Barbara Murray's character, plays a children's social worker, finding suitable care for London's neglected and/or orphaned children. At the same time of course, just like today, there are obstacles to overcome. An alcoholic mum being talked into taking back her offspring from the hands of the social services, (On the proviso she straightens her act up) and three children find themselves in lumber, due to the dad murdering their mum, then he subsequently, is hanged, naturally. (This was 1958).
There's the love interest of course, with a young-ish Max Bygraves playing the man with 'a story' of his own, the lovable 'TV engineer' type of bloke who is famously reliable, at the same time getting involved with Murray and managing to lecture her on how she picks up and throws away the kids etc. But he's the 'really nice' sort, who loves kids, after managing to tell his story of how his own wife and young son died in a rail crash. He even takes them out on a picnic with Murray. The end of the film sees him and Murray going off into the sunset, taking on one of the young neglected for their own.
As has been said, interesting that some things have changed over the many years, some for the better, some for the bad, but a good comment on THOSE times. A good one for the classroom on British Social History, you know, that boring subject that went on about workers' housing in industrial towns like Saltaire etc etc., but nonetheless, that all has its important niche. A nice thing to see is a young Sean Barrett as one of the older kids from the children's home - who? I hear you ask! Okay, he's here on IMDb, but a famous refined voice for the BBC's 'Timewatch' documentary series and countless other narrations.
There's the love interest of course, with a young-ish Max Bygraves playing the man with 'a story' of his own, the lovable 'TV engineer' type of bloke who is famously reliable, at the same time getting involved with Murray and managing to lecture her on how she picks up and throws away the kids etc. But he's the 'really nice' sort, who loves kids, after managing to tell his story of how his own wife and young son died in a rail crash. He even takes them out on a picnic with Murray. The end of the film sees him and Murray going off into the sunset, taking on one of the young neglected for their own.
As has been said, interesting that some things have changed over the many years, some for the better, some for the bad, but a good comment on THOSE times. A good one for the classroom on British Social History, you know, that boring subject that went on about workers' housing in industrial towns like Saltaire etc etc., but nonetheless, that all has its important niche. A nice thing to see is a young Sean Barrett as one of the older kids from the children's home - who? I hear you ask! Okay, he's here on IMDb, but a famous refined voice for the BBC's 'Timewatch' documentary series and countless other narrations.