Little Lord Fauntleroy

8/11/2025

Ok, elephant in the Great Hall first. Despite the clever trick photography and the outsized furniture, I just couldn’t believe in the almost thirty-year-old Mary Pickford as the young “Ceddy”. Aside from the fact that she was attired as if she was an extra on a film about the English Civil War, it just didn’t work for me at all. This cinematic version of the book sticks closer to the original text, allowing us to briefly meet more of the family “Dorincourt” including the wastrel “Bevis” (Colin Kenny) who has manages to irk his father, the Earl (Claude Gillingwater) by marrying an American (also MP) and having a young son. After his horse puts paid to his son’s chances of inheriting, the old man has to eat some humble pie and invite his distant New York cousins to come to Britain. The young