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7.0/10   375 votes
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Director:
John Ford
Writers:
Rudyard Kipling (story) and
Julien Josephson (writer)
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Release Date:
30 July 1937 (USA) more
Genre:
Adventure | Family more
Plot:
Cherubic, adorable, and precocious Priscilla Williams lives in Colonial India with her dad, a Colonel... more | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. more
User Comments:
I have to admit that I liked it a lot! more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Shirley Temple ... Priscilla 'Winkie' Williams
Victor McLaglen ... Sgt. Donald MacDuff
C. Aubrey Smith ... Col. Williams
June Lang ... Joyce Williams
Michael Whalen ... Lt. 'Coppy' Brandes

Cesar Romero ... Khoda Khan
Constance Collier ... Mrs. Allardyce
Douglas Scott ... Pvt. Mott - Drummer Boy
Gavin Muir ... Capt. Bibberbeigh
Willie Fung ... Mohammaudin
Brandon Hurst ... Bagby - Col. Williams's Valet
Lionel Pape ... Maj. Allardyce
Clyde Cook ... Pipe Major Sneath
Bunny Beatty ... Miss Elsie Allardyce (as Lauri Beatty)
Lionel Braham ... Maj. Gen. Hammond
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Additional Details

Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Aspect Ratio:
1.37 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
The original story by Rudyard Kipling was about a boy, Percival Williams, but this was changed to a girl, Priscilla Williams, in order for Shirley Temple to play the role. more
Quotes:
Priscilla Williams: [on her new nickname] Wee Willie Winkie. It does sound like a soldier, doesn't it?
Sgt. Donald MacDuff: Aye.
Priscilla Williams: Then I'd be Private Winkie!
Sgt. Donald MacDuff: Private Winkie it is. A full-fledged soldier of the Queen!
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Being Julia (2004) more
Soundtrack:
Auld Lang Syne more

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10 out of 14 people found the following comment useful:-
I have to admit that I liked it a lot!, 22 August 2002
9/10
Author: zetes from Saint Paul, MN

Surprisingly great John Ford film starring Shirley Temple. I was unsure if I could stand her cuteness for an hour and forty minutes, but I was never as annoyed as I expected to be. She's actually quite - good (I'll probably never live that down, will I?).Once in a while, she got a bit cloying, but for the most part I enjoyed her performance. Believe me, though, John Ford and his screenwriter were careful to balance her with the rest of the film, which is indeed quite masterful. All of the other performers are pitch perfect, including C. Aubrey Smith, Cesar Romero, Michael Whalen, Constance Collier, June Lang, and especially Ford regular Victor McLaglen. He's amazing, as always. The story, based on a Rudyard Kipling book, is very good. Lang plays Temple's mother. Her husband has apparently died, and she accepts the gracious invitation of her father-in-law (Smith), a colonel in India, whom she has never met. While there, Temple becomes a sort of a mascot of the soldiers, with Sgt. MacDuff (McLaglen) taking care of her and teaching her how to be a soldier. Another soldier (Whalen) courts Temple's mother. Cesar Romero plays Khoda Khan, a bandit prince who is being held prisoner in the fort. Ford's direction is as exciting as ever, and the cinematography is halfway between the expressionism of The Informer and the naturalism of Stagecoach. The musical score is also quite good. One might object to the colonialist viewpoint of the film, but, to be fair, Wee Willie Winkie is a lot more palatable in that respect than George Stevens' much more famous Gunga Din is. 9/10.

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