robinb5073 Oh, yeah, that Million Dollar Movie...my brothers and I adored watching the same movie all week long. Damn Yankees, No Time for Sergeants, <sigh>. You got so you could recite the dialogue along with the actors. That must have been where we saw this movie too, because I remember it clearly, though I haven't seen it for decades. I loved it, and of course saw it from the kids' viewpoint. (Dean Stockwell, Al of Quantum Leap fame, is one of my favorite actors - wonderful in The Boy with the Green Hair and so versatile.) The remarks about Peggy Ann Garner by another enthusiast are interesting and I loved Junior Miss as well (movie & book). Yep, this is one that should be on DVD, definitely. EVERYTHING ON MILLION-DOLLAR MOVIE should be on DVD...

Cal-16 Cute story that combines comedy with mystery. The kids are great little actors, aren't they? But, phenobarbital!!!! What a shame that Barbara Whiting didn't have more scenes. She and Peggy Ann were such a great team in "Junior Miss" and I was hoping they'd be cast together in a similar way for this film. While this was a terrific movie and I enjoyed all 3 of the siblings, I think Hollywood shot itself in the foot by not using the Barbara-and-Peggy duo to its best advantage.

rjrcar I been trying to locate this movies for years... I remember watching it on TV (Million Dollar Movies) for a whole week straight, boy that seems like a lifetime ago, . I just love all the characters especially Dean Stockwell and Peggy Ann Garner being the match maker for her mom.... Has any one been able to find this on VHS.....???? I would give anything to get a copy of this.. To this day, I look in the TV guide in hopes of catching again. PLEASE anyone out there that has a copy of this... let me know.... I will glady pay for a copy (within reason )...

sdiner82 "Home Sweet Homicide" first caught the attention of my friends and myself when a NYC channel aired it twice a night for one week circa 1958. We were all entranced by the film--quite possibly because we were young teenagers the same age as the leads in the film: Peggy Ann Garner, Connie Marshall and Dean Stockwell. And we watched every showing--14 times--quoting the hilarious dialogue everyday at school. In researching this overlooked gem at the library, I learned that it was based on a novel by Craig Rice, a pseudonym for a mystery writer who, in turn, based her book on her three young teenaged children. In its own unpretentious way, the film pre-dates the premise of "Halloween"--a murder in a sleepy sylvan suburb, and teenagers in peril (in fact, at the film's chilling twist-ending, Peggy Ann Garner is indeed attacked by the killer while walking down the stairsteps to the living room). The kids' widowed mother (a very droll and beautiful Lynn Bari) is a mystery writer desperately trying to finish her latest book. So her three mature-beyond-their-years children take care of the household chores (watch Connie Marshall roast a turkey for dinner!), and, one sunny day, while walking thru the village, hear the sound of gunshots. The police chalk the killing off as a suicide, the kids say it's murder, and conduct their own investigation--during which they nearly become the true killer's (you'll never guess who) next victims. But Garner, the "mother" of the threesome, decides that the handsome chief detective (Randolph Scott, never more appealing) would be the perfect match for her mother, adding further delightful complications. I cannot recommend this film highly enough. Everyone I know who has seen it loves it, and we can still quote lines of dialogue verbatim as we did when it aired-on-TV. I also came across the paperback edition of Craig Rice's novel at a garage sale in Maine and cherish it to this day (for once, a first-rate movie is the equal of a first-rate book). What a shame "Home Sweet Homicide" seems to have disappeared. It is a total, delightful, sparkling, and at times downright chilling joy. And every member of the first-rate cast is flawless (12-year-old Dean Stockwell never surpassed his witty, charming work here). Please...will someone at 20th Century Fox make this treasure available for new generations (as well as older ones) via Cable, VHS or DVD? Believe me, the response will be more-than-gratifying, as is the movie.