Jun 17th
Little Lord Fauntleroy**              

(GB TVM 1980)

A Brooklyn street kid is in the inheritor of the Dorincourt estate, and gradually melts the heart of the crusty Earl.
Efficiently produced and quite movingly performed television version of a children's classic, with Guinness fleshing out his blustering aristocrat from Kind Hearts and Coronets.

Written by: Blanche Hanalis, from the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
Producers: Norman Rosemont, William Hill.
Director: Jack Gold.
Starring: Alec Guinness, Ricky Schroder, Connie Booth, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Rolf Saxon, Rachel Kempson, Ballard Berkeley, Carmel McSharry, Patsy Rowlands, Patrick Stewart.
Photography: Arthur Ibbetson.
Music: Allyn Ferguson.
Production Design: Herbert Westbrook.