Cinema: The New Pictures: Jul. 19, 1937

Wee Willie Winkie (Twentieth Century-Fox) is the spectacular coming-of-age of a Kipling short story and Shirley Temple. The story, which originally concerned a boy at an Indian border station who got kidnapped by rebel hillmen and rescued the lieutenant's fiancée, has been rewritten to fit a girl and amplified into a big panel of adventure. It is the most expensive picture in which Shirley ever had a part.* It has enough action and well-built characterization to be a great picture without her. In the most exacting role of her astonishing career, Producer...

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