For much of its running time, this is a good example of how not to make an entertaining film about an 11-year-old boy accidentally coming into a million-dollar fortune in stolen money. The naive treatment by first-time director Rupert Wainwright ensures that many of the more interesting gags are thrown away, as Preston (Brian Bonsall), the Cinderella of his family, proceeds to spend his way through the million in less than a week. And Pseuds Corner specialists will have a field day in his relationship with bank teller/FBI agent Karen Duffy, to whom he gives a good time while she's pursuing the million and the crook (Miguel Ferrer) who stole it - especially as Preston plans to woo her when he's 18. But Michael Lerner is amusing as the crooked bank president who advises Ferrer after a week's fruitless pursuit that it 'might be easier to steal another million dollars' and you're left regretting the catalogue of missed opportunities in what might have been, and almost still is, a nice little film.

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