Geronimo1967
Davy (Billy Sheffield) returns home to his recently widowed mum (Dorothy Adams) with a new best four-legged friend. He claims that he found the hound, and asks to keep it. She agrees and that turns out be a shrewd decision as its not bad at helping him catch rabbits. Then their curmudgeonly neighbour Thorneycroft (Russell Simpson) shows up claiming the dog was stolen. Davy refuses to hand him over, so they are summoned to court. It would seem like a bit of a no-brainer, but the kindly judge (Harry Davenport) is quite a wily old gent as he wants the spirit of the law to be adhered to as well as its letter. This is one of those gentle stories, a parable of sorts, that seems designed to encourage that the law is right and we must do what is ri...