Boy With Green Hair and The Canterville Ghost are wonderful movies for the family and particularly children.  Each movie has a lesson to learn while at the same time entertaining the youngsters. 

The Boy With Green Hair is still a fable for our time. It tells the supernatural-tinged story of an orphan who finds a safe haven in small-town America…until the day his hair turns green. Then the towns’ folk turn against him, frightened by the change they cannot understand. A call for tolerance, an inspiring statement that “different” doesn’t mean “threatening,” The Boy with Green Hair boasts a fine cast (Robert Ryan, Pat O’Brien, Dean Stockwell), a popular theme song (Nature Boy) and the feature-film debut of director Joseph Losey (The Servant, The Go-Between).

The Canterville Ghost is about the specter of Sir Simon de Canterville has haunted Canterville Castle for 300 years, ever since he was walled up alive for cowardice. A daring deed by a kinsman will free his spirit. Unfortunately, the Cantervilles are a fearful lot and Simon is out of luck. Then World War II GIs are bunked out at the castle and among them is Canterville descendent Cuffy Williams. But could Cuffy be cursed with the family lily liver? Charles Laughton wonderfully funny and clever (as the ghost), Robert Young, I have always felt was unrated as an actor, (as Cuffy) and Margaret O’Brien (as the castle’s six-year-old current owner) conjure resounding of merry laughter out of an exuberant, ingenious comedy based on an Oscar Wilde tale and cleverly directed by Jules Dassin (Rififi, Topkapi).