An excellent children's pic, for others the contrived melodrama might at best only be bearable.
Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)
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Reviews Counted: 5
Fresh: 4
Rotten:1
Average Rating: 7/10
Runtime: 1 hr 45 mins
Genre: Dramas
Synopsis: Freddie Bartholomew (DAVID COPPERFIELD, CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS) plays Cedric Errol, a poor Brooklyn boy destined for greatness in this film based on the lovable story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Although Ceddie doesn't know it, his... Freddie Bartholomew (DAVID COPPERFIELD, CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS) plays Cedric Errol, a poor Brooklyn boy destined for greatness in this film based on the lovable story by Frances Hodgson Burnett. Although Ceddie doesn't know it, his deceased father was an English nobleman. When it becomes apparent that Ceddie is heir to an English title and an immense fortune, his mother (Dolores Costello Barrymore) takes him back to England, where they discover that her father-in-law, the earl of Dorincourt (C. Aubrey Smith), despises Americans. To win his birthright, Ceddie must struggle against false claims to his title as well as his grandfather's cantankerous disposition. Director John Cromwell (SO ENDS OUR NIGHT, OF HUMAN BONDAGE) at times considered LITTLE LORD FAUNTLEROY his finest film; with a graceful script by novelist Hugh Walpole, an excellent supporting cast, a buoyant sense of humor, and a gem of a performance from Bartholomew, he may well have been right. [More]
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, C. Aubrey Smith, Dolores Costello
Starring: Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, C. Aubrey Smith, Dolores Costello, Guy Kibbee, Henry Stephenson, Eric Alden, Jackie Searl, Reginald Barlow, Ivan Simpson, E.E. Clive, Constance Collier, Una O'Connor, May Beatty, Joan Standing, Jessie Ralph, Lionel Belmore, Gilbert Emery, Joseph Tyzack, Alex Pollard, Daisy Belmore, Walter Kingsford, Helen Flint, Tempe Pigott, Lawrence Grant, Eily Malyon, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Elsa Buchanan, Prince
Director: John Cromwell
Director: John Cromwell
Producer: David O. Selznick
Screenwriter: Hugh Walpole
Story: Frances Hodgson Burnett
Composer: Max Steiner
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Still entertaining drama, though dated, starring Bartholomew and Rooney, two great child actors of the time.
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