Movie #996 "Anne of Green Gables" is a book I have never read so I knew nothing about the story at all. I know it is beloved my many, and in fact, after reading comments about the subject, I put the 194 minutes miniseries with Colleen Dewhurst and Richard Farnsworth as the brother and sister in my DVD queue to watch a perhaps better rendition of this beloved book.... However, I'm faced with making a comment on this film, and I must admit, for a long time I was wondering why this annoying girl was so popular in a book --- but then, I think, it was just this film. I wouldn't recommend it. It is really dated, and I don't think its target audience would be drawn into reading the books from watching this. Yes, if you are nostalgic and would like to go back to the days when kids were really that naive, you might like this, but I didn't really get emotionally involved in it at all. But it did make me want to see a better rendition, which I intend to do in the future.
Anne of Green Gables (1934, 78 minutes) Saw it on TCM
A romantic teenage girl is adopted by a pair of elderly siblings in turn-of-the-century Canada.
Director:
George Nichols Jr. (as George Nicholls Jr.)Fourteen-year-old Anne Shirley (Anne Shirley) is mistakenly sent by an orphan asylum to Avonlea on Prince Edward Island to live with farmer Matthew Cuthbert (O.P. Heggie) and his sister Marilla (Helen Westley). It's a mistake because the Cuthberts were expecting a boy to help with the farm work. Rather than transfer Anne into a home with a woman looking for a babysitter for her numerous children, the Cuthberts decide to keep her, for which Anne is duly appreciative. Extremely imaginative, Anne quickly worms her way into the Cuthberts' hearts as well the hearts of local villagers, including that of her 'bosom friend' Diana Barry (Gertrude Messinger) and fellow schoolmate Gilbert Blythe (Tom Brown), whom Anne instantly despises when he makes fun of her red hair
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