Charming melodrama with Max Bygraves a little awkward but a warm, comforting presence. He has a decent role to play an engineer whose wife and kid died so is wary of involvement but he falls for Barbara Murray a social worker dealing with kids including two Aussies - Dana Wilson from The Shiralee whose dad murdered her mum, and Colin Petersen from Smiley whose mum is a drunken actress. There's also another older kid.
It's serious subject so the warmth is welcome. Lewis Gilbert directs with sensitivity. Lots of care in the film.
Bygraves sings one song and it's sweet - I'm surprised they didn't do a few more.
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