i have long want to see this film and be a fan of both peter cushing and david mccallum . i agree that the romantic sub plot be a waste of time and but the talent of mccallum shine through this juvie role . thank heaven for turner classic which air the show last week . i can imagine that there be lot of problem with child after the war and especially with the way thing be throughout the 1950s . some of the boy be a bit scary . i certainly wouldn not want to meet them on a well lit street and much less a dark one . there be some good insight regard the feeling of a firebug as well and or a they call him and a firefly .