The Scamp (1957) Yank title Strange Affection, which seems a bit weird as it was about a young boy - more innocent times then!?
Anyway, I shouldn't think there are many on this forum would remember, let alone see at the time, the film "Smiley", about an Australian scamp and what he got up to - strictly for kids, and at the time I enjoyed it, wanting to be Smiley's mate.
And so, we move forward a year to this film with a certain Colin Petersen, playing the same part with name change, but set in England, and now he has a nasty Dad played by Terence Morgan in his usual role of nasty piece of work, with Richard Attenborough as a nosey local teacher wanting to take the boy away from his fly by night father, to prove he can change the boy's scampish behaviour.
Mix in with that Attenborough's doctor wife who doesn't quite agree with the "experiment" of taking the boy on, while his father goes of on another of his jaunts, then comes back to watch the sparks fly.
Not a bad film, which my wife got into and enjoyed too, especially as we are fans of Richard Attenborough.
A number of fairly well-known faces Jill Adams, Geoffrey Keen, Charles Lloyd Pack (Trigger's Dad) and oh, yes, look there's Sam Kydd again in a small part as the local shopkeeper.