Charmless and dull; this adaptation of the Broadway hit stars Aileen Quinn as the depression-era moppet; Albert Finney as Daddy Warbucks; Carol Burnett as the cruel headmistress at an orphanage; and Tim Curry as a villain. The film never gets its legs; and there is no sense of setting; it's almost as if the whole thing is happening in a void. John Huston nominally directed--no doubt to make money between his smaller; cheaper masterpieces--but one would have thought he would invest something of himself in here. --Tom Keogh