A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.A Bible-guided Victorian orphan befriends a bootblack in a strange town.
Barbara Bedford
- Mrs. Dodd
- (scenes deleted)
Cora Sue Collins
- Clarabella Dodd
- (scenes deleted)
Sally Martin
- Belinda
- (scenes deleted)
Arthur Aylesworth
- John Little - Orphanage Manager
- (uncredited)
Wade Boteler
- Policeman
- (uncredited)
Harlan Briggs
- Lem Dodd - Man in Jim's Office
- (uncredited)
Jack Curtis
- Townsman
- (uncredited)
Esther Dale
- Miss Brown - Orphanage Secretary
- (uncredited)
Jack Daley
- Mr. Miller - Exiting from Train
- (uncredited)
John Dilson
- Mr. Brown - Man in Jim's Office
- (uncredited)
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Did you know
- Trivia"Rex", the dog in this movie, is the same dog (Terry) who played Toto in The Wizard of Oz (1939).
- SoundtracksLong, Long Ago
(1883)
Music and Lyrics by Thomas Haynes Bayley
Played as background music over the opening credits
Reprised often as background music
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Culver City Vs. Gower Gulch
Orphan Virginia Weidler is a jinx. Every time she is put with some one, they go broke or die. Following the advice of one of the ones who died, she prays, opens a Bible to a random page, jabs a finger, and follows instructions by going to Egypt, New Jersey. There she is sort of adopted by newspaper editor Ian Hunter and his wife, Lois Wilson, and makes friends with Gene Reynolds. Hunter promptly loses his job through a dispute with local skinflint Guy Kibbee, who blocks anyone from hiring him.
Miss Weidler annoys me a bit by the trick of emphatic delivery of every line, but she takes visual direction pretty well. There's a nice fire scene. Over all, though, this strikes me as the sort of movie you got out of Gower Gulch. With the resources that Louis Mayer could throw at it, including Dorothy Yost to do the screenplay and John Seitz to handle the camera, it is quite watchable despite its simplistic, hectoring tone and Reginald Owen in the cast.
Miss Weidler annoys me a bit by the trick of emphatic delivery of every line, but she takes visual direction pretty well. There's a nice fire scene. Over all, though, this strikes me as the sort of movie you got out of Gower Gulch. With the resources that Louis Mayer could throw at it, including Dorothy Yost to do the screenplay and John Seitz to handle the camera, it is quite watchable despite its simplistic, hectoring tone and Reginald Owen in the cast.
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- boblipton
- Apr 16, 2024
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- Runtime1 hour 12 minutes
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- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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