"All Puerto Ricans are American citizens." That's what the oldest of three abandoned Brothers tells the police officer with the visiting Ruth Donnelly, an older woman who now lives with her daughter, visiting the old neighborhood and her old apartment. As sweet as your grandmother's old fashioned apple pie, she immediately wants to take them in, and who wouldn't? These three youngsters are adorable, desperate to stay together after their aunt abandoned them shortly after their parents were killed in a car accident. But child welfare legally has the last say, and even in 1957, they were tough to deal with. This is a great story for veteran character actress Ruth Donnelly to sink her incredibly talented acting teeth into, and always having been a favorite of mine, it was a delight to find her in a leading role and this TV Anthology episode. Donnelly stole many a Warner Brothers film in the 1930's with her no-nonsense, wisecracking ways, a truth-teller of the highest rank. Through her character, we get to see how the bowl cut is done, and it's very funny. But this also has the potential of being sad if the ending doesn't go the way she hopes. Veteran character actor Percy Helton has a nice cameo as an old friend of Donnelly's from the neighborhood. This had great potential to be the pilot for a sitcom, and I can just imagine what they could have done with it. Absolutely superb.
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