Wee Willie Winkie

I’m pretty sure this is the first Shirley Temple movie I’ve seen where she was her iconic child self, and I can see the easy appeal she must have had on the masses in the 30s. She was a precocious, adorable child with a surprising amount of ability at such a young age. Paired with John Ford in this adaptation of a Rudyard Kipling story about a young boy (changed to a girl in the film) who goes to India to live with her grandfather, a British colonel, and her efforts to become a little soldie...