Eddie Collins, Gale Sondergaard, Helen Ericson

A Germanic, gingerbread story, a little like Hansel and Gretel, which visits the future and the past and looks at the range of human nature.

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Unrated, 88 min.

Directed by: Walter Lang

Release Date: January 19, 1940

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DVD Release Date: March 27, 2007

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  • July 18, 2008
    A great fantasy movie.
  • November 17, 2007
    A very different type of Shirley Temple movie - it's very fantastical with almost a Wizard of Oz-type feel (although not to that degree of greatness)
  • July 25, 2009
    Saw it before and really love her movies
  • July 2, 2009
    Borderline ghoulish fantasy. A huge flop in its day, Shirley's first, and its easy to see why the film is loaded with references to death and dying, it was supposed to be Fox's answer to The Wizard of Oz but there's no way this morbid entry could every approach that classic.
  • June 18, 2009
    No more of these movies for me.
  • August 5, 2008
    I've seen this movie, and it's a cute kid movie.
  • December 11, 2007
    What can you say bad about Shirley Temple - nothing all her movies are good.

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