This is more an adult drama concerning a troubled child who doesn't like his foster parents and only finds friendship in a vicious dog he manages to make trust him. Roger Mobley is an orphan taken in by Bill Williams and Marcia Henderson who doesn't like his foster siblings either. Williams is very concerned when he finds out that Mobley has befriended the dog who was trained to be vicious by his former owner who happened to be murdered over money he was hiding. It will take a lot of understanding and patience and love to bring this family together before Williams and Henderson will be able to be his legal guardians, but in the meantime, there's a murder to solve, and the audience pretty much knows who is guilty.
When I saw the name of the production company that was responsible for this film, I recognized it as the producer of various crime films made in the late 50s and early 60's, a total number of nine. This one seemed odd to be among their brief outfit, but when it gets into the crime element of the plot, it made sense even though it doesn't have the film more aspects of the other films they made.
Mobley has a really difficult job to do because his character is not at all sympathetic and neither is the foster father. In fact, foster mom Henderson doesn't seem to be really understanding either. The less said about the foster sister the better. Her scenes are certainly easy to fast forward through. Perhaps the fact that this seemed a bit more raw and less sentimental is the reason why it is extremely simple. This certainly isn't a typical tale of a boy and his closest pal.
When I saw the name of the production company that was responsible for this film, I recognized it as the producer of various crime films made in the late 50s and early 60's, a total number of nine. This one seemed odd to be among their brief outfit, but when it gets into the crime element of the plot, it made sense even though it doesn't have the film more aspects of the other films they made.
Mobley has a really difficult job to do because his character is not at all sympathetic and neither is the foster father. In fact, foster mom Henderson doesn't seem to be really understanding either. The less said about the foster sister the better. Her scenes are certainly easy to fast forward through. Perhaps the fact that this seemed a bit more raw and less sentimental is the reason why it is extremely simple. This certainly isn't a typical tale of a boy and his closest pal.