Dean Stockwell, Elsa Lanchester, Gladys Cooper

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 th...( read more  read more... )e 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.

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G, 1 hr. 32 min.

Directed by: Fred M. Wilcox

Release Date: April 30, 1949

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  • April 1, 2009
    One of the best movies out there, especially for young girls.
  • January 16, 2009
    I love this story since I was a child and this is my favorie version - mostly because of Margaret O'Brien.
  • January 15, 2009
    That kid can yell alot...
  • September 2, 2008
    Ha ha! This is an excellent movie I saw this summer on holiday in the fair distant countryside of Finland. It is so bad it's actually good, I hate the children because I tend to not like childactors in general, but these kids are especially annoying. Which in this context of a re...( read more)ally horrible movie becomes just a total inferno of bad things coming together resulting in - yes, you guessed it - an great Sunday-afternoon film and in a way I'd like to say watching this and liking it is very kitsch. Though the actual film in itself of course is not kitsch at all.
  • March 27, 2008
    not too bad for an older movie
  • March 23, 2008
    i dont know why i love this movie so much. i can watch it over and over again.
  • January 2, 2008
    its such an educational thing but mischiviose
  • November 3, 2007
    ok, new one is better

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