The Webster Boy is a case of a weak script and strong actors combining for a mediocre tale about a love triangle.
John Cassavetes is Vance Miller, an American with a serious gambling addiction who is just through with serving time and ready to finally go back to England. His objective is to find his long-lost love Margaret (
Elizabeth Sellars) and try to start life over with her. When he does find Elizabeth, she is happily married to Paul (
David Farrar) and is the mother of fourteen-year-old Jimmy (Richard Sullivan). As Vance upsets the apple cart trying to win Elizabeth away, young Jimmy faces taunts at school and a sadistic school master -- and doubts as to who his real father might be. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide