Who Killed Doc Robbin

Who Killed Doc Robbin
Customer Review: Like the Littel Rascals meets The Hardy Boys
This is a fun short family film directed by Hal Roach Jr., featuring a group of kids solving a crime in a scary old house - mostly in flash back from a courtroom trial. The adult cast has Virginia Grey and some great B-movie stars like George Zucco and character actors like Grant Mitchell. There's comedy mixed in with the crime solving so it's fine for young kids as well as nostalgic-feeling older folks.
Customer Review: Hal Roach drops a bomb
A few years after M-G-M dropped the "Our Gang" series, producer Hal Roach made a half-hearted attempt to revive the format, with a new cast. "Who Killed Doc Robbin" is the second (and last) of these lame efforts, and one star is just about one too many for this piece of junk. If you are expecting to see anything even vaguely resembling "Our Gang", forget it. In "Who Killed Doc Robbin", a woefully untalented cast muddles its way through one of the most boring screenplays ever concocted, with the whole thing filmed in poor-quality color. It doesn't appear to be a comedy, because it isn't funny at all. Perhaps it was intended to be a mystery, but the only real mystery here is how a top-notch producer like Hal Roach could have become involved in this wretched piece of tripe. This film is not just bad, it's virtually unwatchable.