Review by Damonfordham

PC types would get a coronary over this film! Here, the Gang (including the black children Ernie Morrison and Allen "Farina" Hoskins) form a group called the "Cluck Cluck Klams" and don white sheets and chicken caps. Imagine a German kiddie comedy with Jewish children joining their Aryan pals in the Hitler Youth and you pretty much see how well this would go over today. There is also a long scene with Ernie Morrison Sr. as an illiterate African-American preacher whose foolish sermon is interrupted by a crap game among the congregation. In spite of the absence of good taste throughout much of this film, the kids in the gang still get along as well as always in spite of their racial composition during a time when the real Klan was at its peak in the US. (Ernie Jr. in fact helps engineer a prank on Joe Cobb as he tries to join the "Klams."). Tasteless, shocking, and un-PC? Very much. But fascinating to watch in the same manner as a car wreck.