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Frankie Thomas | ... | ||
O.P. Heggie | ... | ||
Helen Parrish | ... | ||
DeWitt Jennings | ... | ||
Ann Shoemaker | ... | ||
Christian Rub | ... | ||
Richard Quine | ... | ||
Frank Reicher | ... |
Herr Vanderkloot
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Nella Walker | ... |
Frau Vanderkloot
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Addison Richards | ... | ||
Josef Swickard | ... |
Monsieur de LaTour (replaced by Henry Kolker)
(scenes deleted)
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Sarah Padden | ... | ||
Harry Beresford | ... |
Sacristan
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Lightning | ... |
Tentative adaptation of Ouida's sentimental classic about a poor Flemish boy (Frankie Thomas) whose ambition is to become a painter.
Unimaginative filming of an already sentiment-steeped story. The actors are poorly directed indeed--they use exaggerated, cliched expressions and gestures that would have been out of place in the worst silent melodrama--and the production values are strictly Poverty Row (tho this film was in fact made by a major studio, RKO). The 1959 version with David Ladd is the version of choice.