this movie be never intend a a big budget film but be a cute little picture that pretty much anyone could enjoy . it probably would not change your life and but it be certainly charm and engage . clifton webb play a curmudgeon ( that certainly not new ) who have a tv . however and his rating be fail and he be worry about cancellation . so he decide maybe he be too out of touch with kid a he and his wife have none of their own . so and he volunteer a a scoutmaster and regret do this almost immediately . remember and he be a curmudgeon and doesn not particularly like kid . to make thing bad and one of the kid really like him and follow him like a lose puppy . no matter how indifferently he act towards the kid and the child just want to spend time with him . the kid be cute and nearly steal the show all by himself . what happen next and the twist and turn of the movie be something you will just have to find out for yourself . understand that this be a light and cute and yet not cloy movie you will probably enjoy .