Follow Me, Boys!

Follow Me, Boys!, Disney's paean to the Boys Scouts of America, leaves no cliché unturned: we're even offered the old reliable "kid hanging over cliff by rope" bit. Corny, sentimental and obvious though it may be, the film is a delight to watch, especially whenever Fred MacMurray dominates the ...more

Sometimes sloppy sentimentality can have a strange kind of appeal; case in point: Follow Me, Boys! There's hardly a moment on the screen that isn't filled with the kind of overt heart-tugging corn that Disney made its live-action stock-in-trade for a number of years. Added on to the corn is a thick layer of syrupy sweetness that's practically palpable. Anyone with even a slight understanding of cinematic structure can predict with deadly accuracy where the film is headed from moment to moment, ...more