Mister Scoutmaster

Robert Jordan is a well known face on television. He is snobbish and keeps his distance. His show is slipping. He puts it down to having lost touch with the younger generation. He looks for a way to understand them. He decides to take over a scout troop. On paper the decision looks sensible. In practice it is nothing of the kind. Overnight hikes, camps and mishaps follow one another. He never quite gets on with the boys. With one exception. A small boy takes a liking to him. That child slowly softens the old curmudgeon. The film tells it in a comic register. Clifton Webb and Edmund Gwenn appear in the eighty seven minute film, an American production Henry Levin finished in 1953.