Managed Money ought to come with a warning label on it, that even Shirley Temple's cuteness cannot save a bad picture even a short subject like this.
Junior Coghlan and Shirley are brother and sister and he's upset because his parents can't afford to send him to the military academy where his best friend Sidney Miller is going. Got to get money, what to do. Why go out and look for gold in the desert as if either of these two kids had a clue to the finding of it.
Worse than that Shirley declares herself in on the treasure hunt and stows away. Out in the desert Shirley comes across a real down in the mouth character in Kenneth Howell. Here's where the warning label really should have been. Howell's the kind of guy kids are usually warned to avoid like the plague.
But as it does in Temple films it all magically works out. However this is not one of her best pieces of work.
