The Secret Garden Page #3

Synopsis: 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 and drafty, with over 100 rooms built on the edge of the 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 housemaid, 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.
Genre: Drama, Family
Director(s): Fred M. Wilcox
Production: MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer)
 
IMDB:
7.5
APPROVED
Year:
1949
92 min
673 Views


Your brother ?

Aye . . . . . Dickon . . . thy like Dickon

What a wonder, for growing things and the animals

Half lives on the moors he does

almost like an animal himself

My mother told him to go and play with that poor child, she said

all by herself , up in that great lone house

Thay'll be a right fond of Dickon

I never saw such a servant

Does thoust think I play with thy brother

I ..I mean do you think I play with your brother ?

I hate him I hate him I hate you!

Go away!

Aye . .

Get thee self dressed

Wait a minute

Aren't you going to dress me?

What!

Well in India it's the custom

Thy canna dress thyself ?

Of course I can, it's just . . . .

I do not eat porridge

I said, I do not eat porridge

It's breakfast

I don't want any breakfast, Mrs. Medlock, . . . I'm going for a walk in the garden

Well don't be so cocky about it

Go away go away GO AWAY

That's frightened him

Now be the most quiet

Com on, did she frighten ye

Com on then com on

Thou must be the one from India

I'm Mary Lennox

Aye

I'm Dickon

My sister Martha swore they'd be black

at least dark brown

Hmmph!!

That's frightened him

What are you doing here? Where did you come from?

I came to the moor place

I've watched you go bout the garden

There's no way in

In where?

The 'Secret Garden' .

He locked the gate long years ago

Who locked the gate ?

The master . . . Mr Craven

Thy Uncle

What you know about

I know what's said

He locked the gate and buried the key

and neer a souls been in there since

I don't believe you

you know why I don't believe you, . because there isn't any gate . . . I looked

Yeah so ave I

Com on com on com on then

You know everything, . don't you?

Only what's said

Who cares about an old garden, I don't

That's why thee run about it so often ?

What were you doing, hiding in the bushes watching me

I came to play with thee

My mother said thy might be lonely

Well I'm not

and I don't play with any servants brother

I've never heard of anything so ridiculous

Thar can just go home . . . . I mean you can just go home

Thou must learn not to frighten animals

My mother sends thee a skippin rope

A what?

A skippin rope

Tha can play with a skippin rope

Dickon, I .....

Hey for a young lady that took no porridge for breakfast, are suddenly making up at tea time

I'm not hungry I'm just eating

Give me another biscuit

The rate thou going thy'll soon resemble something lovelier than a slat

Hey . . . . What's that?

A skipping rope . . . any fool knows that

So thy saw Dickon

Did thy ever meet such a lad?

No I haven't

So that's what you do with it

Of course

. . Any fool knows that . . .

Do you mean to tell me in India, they have no skipping ropes?

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Robert Ardrey

Robert Ardrey (October 16, 1908 – January 14, 1980) was an American playwright, screenwriter and science writer perhaps best known for The Territorial Imperative (1966). After a Broadway and Hollywood career, he returned to his academic training in anthropology and the behavioral sciences in the 1950s.As a playwright and screenwriter Ardrey received many accolades. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1937, won the inaugural Sidney Howard Memorial Award in 1940, and in 1966 received an Academy Award nomination for best screenplay for his script for Khartoum. His most famous play, Thunder Rock, is widely considered an international classic.Ardrey's scientific work played a major role in overturning long-standing assumptions in the social sciences. In particular, both African Genesis (1961) and The Territorial Imperative (1966), two of his most widely read works, were instrumental in changing scientific doctrine and increasing public awareness of evolutionary science. His work was so popular that many prominent scientists cite it as inspiring them to enter their fields. more…

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