Wee Willie Winkie (1937)

Directed by

John Ford

Genre

children's film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 30m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.6 of 10 from 34 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young girl moves to a British military outpost in India. She wins over the gruff soldiers and helps mend tensions with the local people.

whimsicaladventurouslightheartednostalgiccharmingbriskheartfelt

What happens

Wee Willie Winkie is a 1937 American adventure drama film directed by John Ford and starring Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith, June Lang, Michael Whalen, and Cesar Romero. The screenplay by Ernest Pascal and Julien Josephson was based on an 1888 story by Rudyard Kipling that concerns the British presence in 19th-century India. The production was filmed largely at the Iverson Movie Ranch in Chatsworth, California, where a number of elaborate sets were built for the film. It is noteworthy for not having any elaborate song or dance routines, which had become staples in Temple's films for 20th Century-Fox. This film was the first of three in which Temple and Romero appear together: the second was Ali Baba Goes to Town (1937, in which both make cameo appearances as themselves), and the third was The Little Princess (1939). At the 10th Academy Awards, William S. Darling and David S. Hall were nominated for Best Art Direction for their work on the film. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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