Bennett plays a young man who during severe emotional stress assumes the personality of a six-year-old. When caught stealing a toy duck from a store, he is helped out by Mills, a kindly student who talks the store manager out of pressing charges. Bennett's overprotective mother, Calvert,
has to defend the 21-year-old against his stepfather, when the schizophrenic young man explains he simply wanted to take the duck to his brother, an institutionalized mongoloid. Finlay will have none of this and throws his stepson out of the house. Bennett claims he's going to another country but
ends up at Mills's home. In his six-year-old persona, Bennett endears himself to Mills...
Released:
1969
Rated:
PG
Length:
118 mins