Boy Who Caught a Crook

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Boy Who Caught a Crook

5.5 | 1h12m | en | Adventure

The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.

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Released: October. 01,1961 | Released Producted By: Harvard Film Corp. , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website:

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The Boy Who Caught a Crook is a 1961 childrens film about a young boy who tracks down a gangster.

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Cast

Wanda Hendrix , Don Beddoe , Roger Mobley

Director

Max Frankel

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Harvard Film Corp. ,

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Reviews

bkoganbing Young newsboy Roger Mobley and an old man friend of his Don Beddoe find a briefcase in a vacant lot that was presumably thrown by bank robber Johnny Seven to avoid getting caught. Beddoe opens the briefcase in a filling station bathroom and says it's empty to the cops Robert Stevenson and reporter Richard Crane.But Seven is coming back for his stolen loot and despite protestations to the contrary he's convinced Mobley or Beddoe or both of them have it. He's already risked time in the federal penitentiary for bank robbery so he wants his money. The Boy Who Caught A Crook is a nice, but below average kid's film with a few too many holes in the story to be terribly convincing to anyone over 14. Wanda Hendrix turns in a nice performance as well as Mobley's widowed mother. In fact the whole cast is decent and sincere, but the film just doesn't rise above mediocrity.And I guess the title itself gives it all away.

GUENOT PHILIPPE The flat yarn about a young kid who found a suitcase filled with stolen money. And of course, there is the villain to look after it.I nearly fell to sleep while I watched it. I almost succeeded if there was not the gorgeous Wanda Hendrix, lost in this little programmer. Perhaps she had to pay her electricity bill...I prefer - from the great Edward L Cahn - "Guns, Girls and Gangsters", Cage of Evil, Experiment Alcatraz or Destination Murder. Those are masterpieces, compared to this one.Meanwhile, let's be fair, this is not the worst of all; but not the best either. It was written by Nathan Juran.