Too Young to Love

Thomas Mitchell is a judge in juvenile court. The case under his consideration is based on 47-year-old Alan Gifford, wearing only an undershirt, in the bedroom of 15-year-old Pauline Hahn, wearing nothing.

It's a difficult case that Mitchell must untangle, involving incoherent parents, slovenly associates, and a girl who is not vicious, but fallen into vicious habits. It considers various issues of the day, of changing society, and does so in a thoughtful and excellent manner.

The performances are likewise good, if occasionally they are written a bit monotonously. My one cavil with it is that the director, Muriel Box, seems to have a tin ear for the details of American speech; the accents and vocabulary are a bit too stereotyped to make one think these are three-dimensional characters. Still, an interesting work.