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Director:
Writers:
Rudyard Kipling (story) and
Julien Josephson (writer)
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Release Date:
30 July 1937 (USA) more
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Cherubic, adorable, and precocious Priscilla Williams lives in Colonial India with her dad, a Colonel... more | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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John Ford directs Shirley Temple...but results are still sticky more (10 total)

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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100 min
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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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Referenced in Being Julia (2004) more
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Auld Lang Syne more

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John Ford directs Shirley Temple...but results are still sticky, 25 May 2008
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Author: moonspinner55 from redlands, ca

Star-vehicle for Shirley Temple, produced on a much grander scale than most, has the feisty youngster and her newly-widowed mother traveling to war-torn North India in the late 1800s to live with the Shirley's estranged paternal grandfather, a Colonel stationed with the British Army. Loosely adapted from a Rudyard Kipling story, with some exciting set-ups and sequences at the outset; but, sadly, the picture runs out of intriguing ideas before the finale. Director John Ford seems to lose track of the supporting characters in an attempt to resurrect the typical Shirley Temple scenario, although Cesar Romero is well-cast and memorable as Khoda Khan. Handsome, to be certain, but not one of Shirl's better efforts. ** from ****

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