Little Lord Fauntleroy (1936)

Directed by

John Cromwell

Genre

drama film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 42m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 62 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A poor American boy learns he is the heir to a British earl. He moves to England to meet his grumpy grandfather and tries to soften the old man's heart.

heartwarminggentlehopefulold-fashionedearnestsentimentalslow-paced

What happens

Little Lord Fauntleroy is a 1936 American drama film based on the 1886 novel of the same name by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The film stars Freddie Bartholomew, Dolores Costello, and C. Aubrey Smith. The first film produced by David O. Selznick's Selznick International Pictures, it was the studio's most profitable film until Gone with the Wind. The film is directed by John Cromwell. The film was critically well received and is now in the public domain. In 2012 it was released on Blu-ray Disc by Kino Lorber, following a restoration by the George Eastman House Motion Picture Department. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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