City of Children (1949)
** (out of 4)
This seventy-second episode in John Nesbitt's Passing Parade series is one of the weaker entries I've seen. The film takes a look at Mooseheart, IL, a place where there's an entire city of children who are taught how to live life after being abandoned by their parents. This series has always been one of my favorites because it either recreates great drama or tells great stories that many people might not know about. This film doesn't do either because there isn't any drama and the actual story being told isn't all that entertaining. The movie is incredibly flat from start to finish because we get a lot of stock footage and Nesbitt's narration just isn't what it normally is. The entire film has a lazy feel to it and I found myself looking at the clock a couple times too many, which isn't normally the case with this series. This was the final entry in the series and it wasn't a good one to go out with.
