This very amusing mystery/comedy/romance is built on the trick of giving adult dialogue to children, but the cast and director Lloyd Bacon bring it off perfectly. I don't suppose Randolph Scott was too happy about taking second billing behind 14 year-old Peggy Ann Garner. But it doesn't sour his performance as a police investigator, who is very much taken with Lynn Bari, the widowed mother of three kids. Garner, Connie Marshall, and a very young Dean Stockwell are key witnesses to a murder, which they're determined to unravel, seeing as how their mother is a mystery writer who hatches tougher plots than this one all day long. A genuinely great script by F. Hugh Herbert.
Review of Home, Sweet Homicide
