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Scandal at Scourie (1953)

Directed by Jean Negulesco

Overview

After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.

Length 90 minutes

Actors

Greer Garson | Walter Pidgeon | Agnes Moorehead | Donna Corcoran | Arthur Shields | Philip Ober | Rhys Williams | Margalo Gillmore | John Lupton | Philip Tonge | Wilton Graff | Ian Wolfe | Michael Pate | Tony Taylor | Patricia Tiernan | Victor Wood | Perdita Chandler | Walter Baldwin | Ida Moore