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Anne of Green Gables (1934)

Director: George Nicholls Jr

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A passable adaptation of LM Montgomery's children's classic, beginning well with the placidly fraught arrival in a backwoods town of the orphan girl whose horrified adoptive parents instantly protest that they actually ordered a boy (the atmosphere helped no end by Heggie's lovely performance as the henpecked husband who slyly - and mutely - rebels in her favour). After that the plot begins to develop galloping consumption in order to get everything in, while simultaneously sliding into sentimentality. A further hazard is the lead performance by former child star Dawn O'Day (who adopted the professional name of Anne Shirley after the character she enacts here): much too knowingly sophisticated in playing the wilfully imaginative child, she makes one feel that what the dear thing really rates is a sound thrashing.

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Cast & crew

Director: George Nicholls Jr

Producer: Kenneth MacGowan

Cast: Anne Shirley, Tom Brown, OP Heggie, Helen Westley, Charley Grapewin, Sara Haden full cast

Genre(s): Children's

Duration: 77 mins


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