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.
Director: Jean Negulesco
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Greer Garson as Victoria McChesney |
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Walter Pidgeon as Patrick J. McChesney |
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Donna Corcoran as Patsy |
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Agnes Moorehead as Sister Josephine |
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Arthur Shields as Father Reilly |
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Philip Ober as B. G. Belney |
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Rhys Williams as Bill Swazey |
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Margalo Gillmore as Alice Hanover |
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John Lupton as Artemus |
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Philip Tonge as Fred Gogarty |
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Wilton Graff as Leffington |
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Ian Wolfe as Councilman Hurdwell |
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Michael Pate as Rev. Williams |
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Tony Taylor as Edward |
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Patricia Tiernan as Second Nun |
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Victor Wood as James Motley |
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Perdita Chandler as Sister Dominique |
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Walter Baldwin as Michael Hayward |
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Ida Moore as Mrs. Ames |
| Writing | Karl Tunberg | Writer |
| Writing | Leonard Spigelgass | Writer |
| Writing | Norman Corwin | Writer |
| Writing | Mary McSherry | Writer |
| Production | Edwin H. Knopf | Producer |
| Directing | Jean Negulesco | Director |
| Sound | Douglas Shearer | Recording Supervision |
| Editing | Ferris Webster | Editor |
| Camera | Robert H. Planck | Director of Photography |