The Secret Garden [1949] [DVD]Margaret O'Brien (actor) Dean Stockwell (actor) Format: all-region dvd (worldwide) Runtime: 88 min Quality: Very Good
Margaret O'Brien makes a spirited Mary Lennox, the orphan whose mischievous optimism brightens up life at her morbid uncle's mansion, and Elsa Lanchester is typically splendid as the kindly maid. Unfortunately, Gladys Cooper overdoes the tyranny as the housekeeper and Herbert Marshall is a damp squib as the grieving uncle.
An orphan goes to stay with her widowed uncle and discovers a long-neglected garden, which she painstakingly restores to its former glory. Enchanting melodrama adapted from the book by Frances Hodgson Burnett, with a marvellous cast including Margaret O'Brien, Dean Stockwell, Herbert Marshall and Elsa Lanchester. |