A fetching little comedy about a teenager, Sonny 'Woo Woo' Wiscarver, who grabbed headline notoriety in wartime America by running off with a couple of married women. His ingenuous odyssey needed a Preston Sturges or Woody Allen tough, though, to turn it into a rollicking oddity. It has a good star in the Eddie Bracken-like Patric Dempsey, but what it lacks is outright laughs. Dempsey's one-liners mainly consist of repeat lines like 'It'll be great! ' or 'That's the saddest thing I've ever heard'. They don't quite give the picture the sweep of madness it needs. But Talia Balsam is particularly appealing as Sonny's first love, and there are good cameos from raucous Kathleen Freeman as the kid's landlady and mournful Michael Constantine as his father. Glenn Miller tunes give the piece a familiar period feel. The real Sonny Wisecarver appears as a mailman.

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