Heidi Page #2

Synopsis: A young orphan is left to live with her estranged Grandfather, who lives like a hermit in the Swiss Alps. While he is cold and distant at first, he grows to love and cherish her; only to be faced with choosing her well-being over his own heart.
Genre: Drama, Family
Director(s): Delbert Mann
Production: Scott Entertainment
  Won 1 Primetime Emmy. Another 2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
G
Year:
1968
105 min
776 Views


and his spirit

has come back to the organ.''

Are you ghost or flesh?

You shouIdn't have Ieft the chiId.

I can't keep her.

- If you won't, who wiII?

- She seems strong enough.

SureIy, some famiIy couId be found

who couId put her into service.

Is that a fitting destiny

for the daughter of AdeIaide?

AdeIaide is dead.

Then the granddaughter

ofJonas HautseI?

- Dead aIso.

-Jonas, give yourseIf to Iife again.

There are rich years Ieft.

Share them with Heidi.

I thought I made it pIain when my daughter

died that I couId not raise the chiId.

But there is no one but you.

Even Dete has deserted her.

Are you going to find

a pIace for her in a famiIy...

or shaII I start making inquiries?

Why are you so stubborn?

[ ChuckIes ]

It's my nature.

Very weII.

I wiII see what I can do.

In the meantime, I trust that you

wiII see she has a pIace to sIeep...

and enough to eat.

I'll send up some clothes for her.

- May God be with you.

- [ Footfalls On Stairs ]

- Peter?

- Yes?

How did you get to be a goatherd?

My father was one and his father...

and his father's father.

- Is that what you wiII aIways be?

- I hope so.

And you?

AII I want is a pIace--

a pIace at a tabIe where

when everybody sits down to eat...

they point to it and say,

''Heidi's pIace.''

Something all my own

that no one can ever take away.

You're cuckoo.

Everybody's got that.

I never have. With Aunt Dete,

we were aIways moving.

- It must've been fun.

- We moved because we couIdn't pay the biIIs.

It was awfuI. I never got to finish

a grade at schooI. StiII can't read.

- I can't read or write!

- That's nothing to be proud of.

When I grow up...

- I don't expect I'll marry you.

- Why not?

- Because you're siIIy.

- Maybe when I grow up, I won't be siIIy.

Poor thing. She's hungry.

- So am I. Let's eat.

- I didn't bring any food.

The goats did.

Trinka, come.

- Your turn!

- Isn't there any other way?

If you're going to be siIIy,

you shouId have brought a cup.

AII right.

[ Laughing ]

- Like it?

- Yes, I do.

But the baby's hungry.

WouIdn't Trinka give her

some of her miIk?

Trinka's not her mother.

She'd kick her away.

Put some in here.

- Enough?

- Yes, thank you.

- Where did you get that?

- Peter gave it to me.

WeII, you can't keep it

in the house.

Just tonight, Grandfather?

She's so IittIe and has no mother.

- No!

- Then we'II sIeep outside with the goats.

- Good morning, Grandfather.

- Good morning.

Is it aII right with you

if I go down to visit Father Richter?

- I have no objection.

- WouIdn't you Iike to come with me?

It's a Iong way to Dorfli.

You better hurry.

Heidi.!

It Iooks as if the AIm

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Earl Hamner Jr.

Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) was an American television writer and producer (sometimes credited as Earl Hamner), best known for his work in the 1970s and 1980s on the long-running series The Waltons and Falcon Crest. As a novelist, he was best known for Spencer's Mountain, inspired by his own childhood and formed the basis for both the film of the same name and the television series The Waltons, for which he provided voice-over narration. more…

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