Adapted from a play 'Uncertain Joy' by Charlotte Hastings.
Colin Petersen is a wild child who has been badly brought up by no-good father Terence Morgan and no mother, finds a friend in schoolteacher Dickie Attenborough, who eventually shelters the boy when dad takes off for the Americas. Things don't go too smoothly with Dickie's wife Dorothy Alison and housekeeper Maureen Delaney, and especially a loathsome friend Margaretta Scott. Then Morgan returns, with 'American' wife Jill Adams...
Not schmaltzy. The kid's feelings / reactions seem genuine. Another nice performance from Petersen, who had very few film appearances.
Photographed by Freddie Francis.
Terrible title.
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