The map is the fun. The wish under it is saving the block from a country club.
The review
A country club is about to take their houses. That is the plain fact under the map, the pirate ship, and the yelling. The jokes are loud. A child who is not the hero is still in the crew. The wish is to save the block. The map is how they carry the wish.
Families who can take volume and a little fright have a straight yes. Families who need quiet do not. I would not call it a lesson and I would not sneer at the wish. Treasure is the game. The street is why the game was allowed to start. Watch which kid is useful when the camera is not in love with him.
Adults. The courtroom is the work. What happened and what can be proved are not the same fact.
The review
A soldier shoots a bar owner and says the man raped his wife. A former prosecutor who now fishes more than he practices takes the defense. I am not going to describe the testimony. In 1959 the testimony itself was the scandal, because a courtroom in an American film was asked to say out loud what a trial of this kind has to say. The lawyer is good at the saying. He is also having a good time, and the film lets you see the good time, which is the correction inside the craft.
Adults. A house does not need this as a primer. A house that wants one picture of how a verdict is made, rather than how a villain confesses, can use it. Ask, at the end, what the jury was allowed to know and what the rooms already knew. Those are different piles. The decade's more famous courtroom hours snap the case shut with a witness who breaks. This one is more honest about the gap, and less honest about whether the lawyer is a man to admire. Admire the proceeding. Decline the grin.
