Patti Randall (Hayley Mills) is always stirring up the police department with her "hallucinations about people in trouble." So when her cat, D.C., comes home wearing a wristwatch around his neck with "HEL" scratched on the casing, Patti immediately jumps to the conclusion that someone was trying to write "HELP." It naturally follows, in her brain, that the watch belongs to a woman who was kidnapped during a bank robbery. She immediately goes to the FBI and gets Agent Zeke Kelso (Dean Jones) involved, much to the chagrin of her older sister, Ingrid (Dorothy Provine).
Pros: I think this movie is very funny, in a '60s, Disney kind of way. The next-door neighbor, Mrs. MacDougall (Elsa Lanchester) is hilarious. The other side characters, including Patti's friend Canoe (Tom Lowell) and Ingrid's boyfriend Gregory Benson (Roddy McDowall) are also very funny. The story is whacky, which is a good thing.
Cons: Some parts are, admittedly, overdone. The bad guys are a bit much. D.C. is a shade too smart for an animal, but just a shade.
My Rating: OK (teenager smoking a pipe, frightening situations)
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