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The Secret Garden (1987)

Country of Origin: UK
Year of Production: 1987
Running Times: 100 mins
Format: colour 35mm
Ratio:
Sound:

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: Rosemont Productions Limited / Viacom Productions Inc
Executive Producer: Norman Rosemont
Producer: Steve Lanning

SCRIPT
Script: Blanche Hanalis
Novel: Frances Hodgson Burnett

DIRECTION
Director: Alan Grint

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Robert Paynter

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Keith Palmer

MUSIC
Music: John Cameron

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Costume Designer: Diane Holmes

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: John Stoll
Construction Coordinator: Michael Redding

LOCATIONS
Locations: Highclere Castle, Newbury, England, UK
Location Manager: Nigel Goldsack

CAST
Gennie James (Mary Lennox)
Barret Oliver (Dickon Sowerby)
Jadrien Steele (Colin Craven)
Michael Hordern (Ben Weatherstaff)
Billie Whitelaw (Mrs Medlock)
Derek Jacobi (Archibald Craven)
Lucy Gutteridge (Mrs Lennox)
Colin Firth (adult Colin Craven)
Julian Glover (Colonel McGraw)
Cassie Stuart (Martha)
Margaret Whiting (Nurse Boggs)
Philip Locke (pitcher)
Karen Archer (Mrs Crawford)
Irina Brook (adult Mary)
David Waller (Dr Craven)
Pat Heywood (Mrs Sowerby)
Carmel McSharry (Mrs Gordy)
Sophie Thursfield (Betty)
Tony Selby (Sergeant Barney)
Alison Doody (Lilias)
Edward Tudor-Pole (John the footman)
Stephen Dillane (Captain Lennox)
Dominic Hawksley (young officer)

SUMMARY

A spoiled young girl, Mary, is orphaned in India when plague claims both her parents and she returns to England to live with her melancholy old uncle in a gloomy old mansion. Mary determines to find out what it was that made her kindly uncle so sad - and to find out who or what is causing the howling and screaming that echoes through the house at nights...

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

USA
Rating: PG

<AWARDS

1988
Emmy Awards, USA

Outstanding Children's Program (Steve Lanning, Norman Rosemont) - winner

1989
Young Artist Awards, USA

Best Young Actress in a Special, Pilot, Movie of the Week or Mini-series (Gennie James) - nominated

TIMELINE

1987
November

30: USA - theatrical release

LINKS

SEE ALSO
O Jardim Encantado (1959)
The Secret Garden (1919)
The Secret Garden (1949)
The Secret Garden (1975)
The Secret Garden (1993)
The Secret Garden (1994)

KEYWORDS

book into film; gardens; children


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