Word: webbe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Scoutmaster (20th Century-Fox) enacts one more battle in Clifton Webb's long movie war with children. Perhaps because he is opposed this time by as potent an organization as the Boy Scouts, Webb is considerably more mellow than in his Mr. Belvedere days: he strikes only one urchin (and then with only a blob of ice cream), and soon loses his heart to a frog-voiced eight-year-old (George Winslow). Webb takes over an unruly troop of Scouts because, as a writer of TV children's shows, he thinks he should know more about the spaceship...
...film milks a few laughs by dressing Webb up as a scoutmaster and turning him loose on an overnight hike with his irreverent charges. Unfortunately, the whole thing soon turns from slapstick to sentiment as Webb and his wife (Frances Dee) decide to adopt Master Winslow. Edmund Gwenn does his twinkling best as a clergyman in on the plot to make a child-lover of Webb...
...Long Island Sound, the Riverside (Conn.) Yacht Club's four-girl crew, skippered by Judy Webb, made the most of light breezes to take three out of six races in 210-Class sailboats. With a final point standing of 31¾ to the runnerup Lake Geneva (Wis.) Yacht Club's 25¼, Riverside won its second National Women's Sailing championship...
ALBERT M. WEBB Barbados, B.W.I...
Though glossily put together and smoothly acted (particularly by Clifton Webb as a tart-tongued socialite), these melodramatic vignettes are merely a ripple on the picture's main theme: the sinking of an ocean liner. Unfortunately, too much time is spent on contrived fiction, too little on dramatic fact...