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little monsters disrupt the orderly calm of his children's home, and even the professional foster-mother, pelted with her mashed potato as she lectures her unruly brood on good manners. These fourteen children were obviously a very wild bunch, and the film doesn't pretend otherwise. ... David
Hemmings, directing his second film, has mostly evaded the dangers implicit in this misfits-as-heroes approach, though there are times when the difference between the real children and the screen children turns them into mere lovable rogues. ... the film does well enough on its own terms, it might have done better within a documentary framework"
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