The Secret Garden (1987)
- Director(s):
- Alan Grint
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This made-for-TV adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's The Secret Garden stars Gennie James as spoiled-rotten Mary Lennox. When her parents die of cholera, Mary is whisked from her home in India to live in the forbidding Victorian mansion of her flint-hearted uncle (Derek Jacobi). Thanks to the friendship--and vivid imagination--of gardener's son Jadrien Steele, Mary learns that life is lived best when one cares for others. At the same time, her uncle begins to act like a human being. The only false note in this otherwise flawless production was the decision to clumsily frame the story with the narration of the adult Mary Lennox. Blessed with a top-rank British cast, including Michael Hordern, Billie Whitelaw, Lucy Gutteridge and Alison Doody (Harrison Ford's vis-a-vis in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, this 1987 Secret Garden was first telecast as a Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
Complete Cast:
- Lucy Gutteridge - Mrs. Lennox
- Stephen Dillane - Captain Lennox
- Edward Tudor-Pole - John the Footman
- Gennie James - Mary Lennox
- Margaret Whiting - Nurse Boggs
- Carmel McSharry - Mrs. Gordy
- Tony Selby - Sgt. Barney
- Philip Locke - Pitcher
- Karen Archer - Mrs. Crawford
- Alison Doody - Lilias
- Pat Heywood - Mrs. Sowerby
- Derek Jacobi - Archibald Craven
- Sophie Thursfield - Betty
- Barret Oliver - Dickon Sowerby
- Irina Brook - Adult Mary
- Cassie Stuart - Martha
- David Waller - Dr. Craven
- Colin Firth - Adult Colin Craven
- Director(s):
- Alan Grint
- Writer(s):
- Blanche Hanalis
- Producer(s):
- Steve Lanning
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- 1988 - The Secret Garden - Academy of Television Arts and Sciences - Outstanding Children's Program
