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Scandal at Scourie (1953)
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.
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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.
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Genre:Drama
Written By:Karl Tunberg, Leonard Spigelgass, Norman Corwin, Mary McSherry
In Theaters:5/17/1953
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Runtime:90 minutes
Studio:Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Cast
Jean Negulesco
Director
Greer Garson
Victoria McChesney
Walter Pidgeon
Patrick J. McChesney
Donna Corcoran
Patsy
Agnes Moorehead
Sister Josephine
Arthur Shields
Father Reilly
Philip Ober
B. G. Belney
Rhys Williams
Bill Swazey
Margalo Gillmore
Alice Hanover
John Lupton
Artemus
Philip Tonge
Fred Gogarty
Wilton Graff
Leffington
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