This is one of those fey little conceits you can summarize in a few sentences. The music is obtrusive, dreadful and repetitious. The situation is not believable, especially for Hayley at the age of 15 playing 12. When I look at the splendid range of emotional responses the film Tiger Bay brought out of Hayley Mills, I keep waiting for the movie to draw on her gifts and use them...and it does not. The film plods through its plot with an unshakeable earnestness and 'hit you over the head' symbolism. Hayley was an astonishing talent - she used a richer and more suggestive range of acting skills in Disney's Pollyana than she does here!
Review of Whistle Down the Wind
