Sam Wanamaker is a puppeteer and ventriloquist stranded in Britain. He's staying with his aunt when a combination of circumstances has two children and a packet of smuggled diamonds dumped on him. He has the connections to dispose of the diamonds. To disguise the diamonds, he hides them in the teddy bear of one of the children, Mandy Miller. He then replaces the bear.... but the girl knows it's not hers. With child services, the police and friendly neighbor Jan Miller around, can Wanamaker get the money for the diamonds and get out of England?
Cy Enfield directs, as he so often does, an interestingly skewed movie. It starts out like a crime drama and turns out to be a Christmas film, albeit one released in June. There are also some nice shots of the countryside near Brighton.
Wanamaker may have been born the son of a Jewish tailor in Chicago, but he carved out a fairly distinguished career in England after he was blacklisted in the Red Scare. He directed and produced Shakespeare in Covent Garden and Stratford-on-Avon. His vision of rebuilding the Globe Theater was not realized until four years after his death in 1993 at age 74.
Cy Enfield directs, as he so often does, an interestingly skewed movie. It starts out like a crime drama and turns out to be a Christmas film, albeit one released in June. There are also some nice shots of the countryside near Brighton.
Wanamaker may have been born the son of a Jewish tailor in Chicago, but he carved out a fairly distinguished career in England after he was blacklisted in the Red Scare. He directed and produced Shakespeare in Covent Garden and Stratford-on-Avon. His vision of rebuilding the Globe Theater was not realized until four years after his death in 1993 at age 74.