Little Lord Fauntleroy
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Actor: Bernice Stegers, Betsy Brantley, George Baker, John Castle (II), Michael BenzBrand: Image Entertainment
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 171 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-02-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Homevision
DVD Reviews of Little Lord Fauntleroy
DVD Review: Ricky Schroeder Version
Summary: 2 Stars
For those looking for the Ricky Schroeder version of LLF, save your time and your money. While the kid is a great little actor, the story is so far off kilter from the original that it constantly stabs into the brains of all Burnett fans, despite the dated acting in some places of the original.
Ricky was closer in age to the actual Fauntleroy than either the current actor or Freddie Bartholomew but that's about the only good thing. That party scene with him starting a group sing-song of "Oh Them Golden Slippers" was just plain embarrassing. He's "too American", too assertive, too bold, the very thing the Earl most hated about American children. Ceddie was continually described as firm and strong but polite and refined. He also had a "mop" of hair, not a slicked-down, wiggy pageboy. Bartholomew's slightly long, slightly unkempt curls were much closer to Ceddie's "lovelocks" and the hairstyle that became the bane of thousands of Victorian and Edwardian boys.
Also, "Dearest" was, in no way, shape or form, some modern feminist. She didn't get a job, she lived on the income from money left her by her late husband ("enough to live simply upon"). Getting a job would have been so out of character for her class, both as an American or as an Englishwoman, that the Earl could NEVER have been reconciled to her and the villagers wouldn't have admired her, they'd have held her in contempt. The SHAME! The SCANDAL! Oh my!
Of all the Fauntleroys extant, Bartholomew comes closest to the original, even delivering exact lines in exactly the tone one can hear in Burnett's writing. Even the parts added to "improve" the story, as the fight between Ceddie, Dick and the "toughs", are well-done. (After all, how can you show a red-blooded American boy unless you have him beating the cr@p out of someone?)
And, the casting was superb. Mickey Rooney once told Judy Garland that acting was simply believing that you were the character and his method and skill are so apparent here. Even the minor characters are true to the soul of the book. I love how they show that the "rival Fauntleroy" is an oaf at the beginning and a nice boy at the end without one word being said.
Schroeder's Fauntleroy is cute but the film is a travesty and Fauntleroy isn't supposed to be cute. He's supposed to be the essence of manly goodness and nobility-in-embryo and he'd have cut his vocal cords before singing "Golden Slippers".
If the BBC version is worse than Schroeder, it must be bloody awful.
Amazon has the Bartholomew version. Buy it.
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