Not worth the price of admission even if it was the price charged in 1950.

Rating: 4/10 (25 May 2018)

How horrible was the writing of this script? Let me describe the opening sequence to drive this irrefutable fact - not opinion - home.
We begin this movie by seeing a five year old scurrying around all over the place as a mother searches for much needed medicine for the ailing older brother. The father is also searching out much needed items for radio upgrades and such. The older sister is left watching the little boy and trying, unsuccessfully to keep him out of trouble. The boy is chalk drawing on the floor, jumping up on furniture and steps, reaching for a toy space shuttle on a high shelf and, of course, it falls. This time the sister saves the day as she runs to catch the shuttle in mid-air. Whew! Life sure does so easily hang in the balance in this film. Inexplicably, the rest of the family turns their attention away from this ADHD holy terror when they're together as a group and the boy, aged 5, is not with them. Oh, look, here he comes now. Everybody has a careful, frightful, look as I guess finally they all notice that the toy shuttle the sister caught has two batteries in it and is now being held by the young boy as he slowly approaches. The father carefully moves to take the shuttle away from the boy. The father quietly removes the batteries and places both the batteries and the shuttle on a table top easily reachable by the child. The sister, feeling pity for her brother, smiles, hands him the shuttle, then walks away to catch up with the rest of the family who had already left the shop. Oops! The boy was left behind, alone and unsupervised, so he could pick up those batteries and stuff them in his pocket. Then we see that they've walked a bit out of town which, in these unbelievably dangerous times, the young boy is, yet again, unsupervised and bringing up the rear. Yes, that is right, folks, everybody is facing forward and away from the 5 year old hellion. The little devil puts the batteries in and, of course, presses the on button then big toy noises are made by the shuttle and scratch one little precocious 5 year old from the film... bye bye.
Do you understand what I mean now? The stupidity displayed in the opening scene was written in, everywhere, as the movie continued. Horrible. Just AWFUL writing.