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Safe at Home! (1962)
Corny and Sweet
18 September 2006 - 3 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
Sure, it's corny, the acting is uninspired but acceptable, and the screenplay appears to have been written in one morning before breakfast. But I loved the spring training setting in coastal south Florida and the opportunity to see my old childhood favorites do a movie together with a bit of a message (about lying). I identify with the child who longs to connect with his heroes, and I have my heroes humanized in the process. Furthermore Mantle and Maris deliver several lengthy lines very acceptably. I wish there was more of them and less of Frawley.
The movie is a simple, superficial sally through an age of innocence that brought me back to my youth. Frankly, I enjoyed it, and I say this without guilt.
Mark
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