The Little Princess (1939) Reviews & Ratings

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The Little Princess reviews

The Little Princess holds a 6.6/10 average from 129 TMDB ratings.

Young "Sara" (Shirley Temple) is the apple of her military father's eye. When he (Ian Hunter) is sent abroad to fight in the Boer war, she is left at a posh boarding school run by the pernickety "Miss Minchin" (Mary Nash). Initially, this all goes swimmingly until news reaches them that her father has been killed at the siege of Mafeking and she, now penniless, has to serve as a glorified scullery maid. Disbelieving…
— CinemaSerf (7/10)

A little girl goes in search of her father who is reported missing by the military during the Second Boer War.

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