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starring: Katharine Hepburn
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786301328500
Format: Black & White, NTSC
ISBN: 6301328507
Label: Turner Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Turner Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Entertainment
Release Date: April 10, 1991
Sales Rank: 18916
Studio: Turner Home Entertainment
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Rating: - Katharine Heburn's charming turn as a Scottish "gypsy"
After the twin debacles in 1934 of the film "Spitfire," where she played a hellcat from the mountains of South Carolina, and the play "The Lake," which inspired the famous Dorothy Parker barb, "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B," Katharine Hepburn returned to Hollywood (stopping off in Mexico to divorce her husband Ogden Ludlow) and signed with RKO to do six more films during the next two years. The first film in Hepburn's new contract with "The Little Minister," a Scottish romance written ... Read More
Rating: - A disquieting vision of Scottish society
This film is a poignant vision of Scottish society in the 19th century. It is centered on a new young minister arriving in a village in Scotland. He has to face two things : the greed and inhumanity of the lords who exploit the workers and the residents in the village, to the point of getting the army to help them. He preaches peace but he is not listened to because a gypsy girl is agitating the population. His second ordeal is love. He falls in love with the gypsy girl who manipulates him to the point ... Read More
Rating: - A WHIMSICAL CURIO.
This curiously little-know Hepburn film is a fine, respectable version of the play by Sir James M. Barrie. In 184O, in the village of Thrums, Scotland - whose main industry is weaving - the local villagers anticipate the arrival of their new minister, Gavin Dishart (Joan Beal) with great enthusiasm. Soon after his arrival in Thrums, the little minister meets Babbie (Hepburn). Her proper name is Barbara: she is actually the well-educated fiancee of Lord Milford Rintoul, but she makes Dishart believe she ... Read More
Rating: - charming classic
This is an underrated,but charming film version of J.M.Barrie's classic novel.The part of Gavin is very well done,and,though Katherine Hepburn showed her lack of experience at this point in her career,her performance as "Babbie" is spirited.The youth and innocence of the main characters is clearly shown,and they eventually,if somewhat clumsily,triumph in their love for each other.I recommend this movie,but don't expect it to follow the original story as well as it could have.
Rating:  - good film; enchanting score;pubescent Hepburn
The Little Minister was one of Katherine Hepburn's earliest works. She was a teenager when this film was made but had already made a name for herself. The story is fairly well done but the compelling aspects of this film are the score, a hauntingly beautiful Irish melody (composed by Max Steiner?) and the exquisitely gorgeous young Hepburn. Hepburn's reputation , even at this early date, preceded her, resulting in an intimidated leading man in John Beal.
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