Cinema: Love Is Not Enough

A Child Is Waiting. There are 5,700,000 "mental defectives" in the U.S., about a third of them children. Some are helpless imbeciles, but many can be educated at the primary level. Only in the past decade, however, have modern methods of instruction and therapy been offered to any considerable number of defectives; several millions are still stored in antiquated institutions or tended by loyal relatives.

This is the situation examined in this picture. It is not a pleasant situation and it is not a pleasant picture. But as far as it goes the film...

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