The Secret Garden (1949)

The Secret Garden (1949) (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Italian ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Italy ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
79 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1949 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Fred M. Wilcox

Written By:
Robert Ardrey
Frances Hodgson Burnett

Actors:
Margaret O'Brien ..... Mary Lennox
Herbert Marshall ..... Archibald Craven
Dean Stockwell ..... Colin Craven
Gladys Cooper ..... Mrs. Medlock
Elsa Lanchester ..... Martha
Brian Roper ..... Dickon
Reginald Owen ..... Ben Weatherstaff
Aubrey Mather ..... Dr. Griddlestone
George Zucco ..... Dr. Fortescue
Lowell Gilmore ..... British Officer
Billy Bevan ..... Barney
Dennis Hoey ..... Mr. Pitcher
Matthew Boulton ..... Mr. Bromley
Isobel Elsom ..... Governess
Norma Varden ..... Nurse

Synopsis:

When Cholera takes the parents of Mary Lennox, she is shipped from India to England to live with her Uncle Craven. Archibald Craven's house is dark, drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the moors. Mary finds that her Uncle does not wish to see her, which is fine with Mary as she herself is rude and spoiled. While walking the gardens the next day, Mary notices that there is a area in the garden surrounded with a high stone wall and no doorway. Dickon, brother of a house maid, tells her of the garden behind the wall. By the path, the raven unearths the hidden key so that Mary and Dickon are able to enter the walled garden to find it overgrown and neglected. Inside the house, she finds that Archibald has a son named Colin, who is crippled and as spoiled as she. Together these three work to make the secret garden their own world.

When tempestuous Mary Lennox (Margaret O'Brien), born in India to wealthy parents, is orphaned by a cholera epidemic, she is sent to live with her reclusive and embittered Uncle Archibald Craven (Herbert Marshall) and her ill-behaved, bedridden cousin Colin (Dean Stockwell) at their desolate and decaying estate known as Misselthwaite Manor. Dickon (Brian Roper), the brother of one of the house maids, tells her of a garden secreted behind a hidden door in a vine-covered wall. When a raven unearths the key, the two enter and discover the garden is overgrown from neglect since Craven's wife died there in an accident. They decide to keep their discovery a secret, and begin to restore it to its original grandeur. Under the influence of the Secret Garden, Mary becomes less self-absorbed, Colin's health steadily improves, and Archibald's curmudgeonly personality fades away.

After losing her self-indulging parents in an earthquake, a bitter young girl named Mary Lennox is sent to live in England with her reclusive Uncle. Eventually she discovers her bedridden cousin and a 'secret garden' that once belonged to her deceased aunt.

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