RKO has turned out an absorbing, sensitive story of tolerance and child understanding in The Boy with Green Hair. Story [by Betsy Beaton] is that of a war orphan, shifted around from one relative ...

spiky red hair. The background shows one of the boys running through a proto-Green Hill Zone, complete with a loop de loop. In the sky, there's a menacing cartoon face with a big nose and sharp teeth.

The boy feels safe with his new caretaker, but when he is taunted for being an orphan, he gets demoralized. The next day Peter wakes up with green hair. Embarrassed and further ridiculed ...