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  • 7/7/2025
Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedri | dG1fcVVseXgzTnR6aVk
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00:00Once there was a small boy who lived on Hester Street in New York.
00:07He was an ordinary boy, about to have an extraordinary adventure.
00:14About to be taken from New York to England, to be made an English Lord.
00:20So, this is little Lord Fauntleroy.
00:25For young Seddy, is the sole surviving heir to his grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt.
00:36Is that my grandpa's house?
00:38That's the gatekeeper's lodge.
00:41I'll be jiggered.
00:44It promises to be an exciting new world for Seddy.
00:48But first, he must contend with his hard-hearted grandfather.
00:51So you're my grandson.
00:53I'm mighty glad to meet you, Grandpa.
00:56I'd have seen to it the boy was suitably dressed.
01:00But I've been wearing my best new knickers.
01:03Hardly appropriate for Lord Fauntleroy.
01:06Do I have to wear this funny suit, Mellon?
01:09He looked just elegant.
01:11Besides, it's what his lordship ordered.
01:14Am I glad the boys on Hester Street can't see me now?
01:17I guess being an Earl is pretty important.
01:19No need to moan about it.
01:21I wasn't.
01:22I was just thinking about Mama.
01:24You what?
01:28To become the new lord, the Earl separates the boy from his mother and forbids him to see her.
01:33Mama, Mary came to church too, Grandpa.
01:36Why don't we sit with them?
01:38Our place is in the family pew.
01:41All this will be yours one day.
01:44Mine?
01:45When?
01:46When?
01:47When you are the Earl of Downing Court.
01:49When I'm dead.
01:51Well, then I don't want it.
01:54I don't want you to be dead.
01:57It's kind of you to say so.
01:58It takes a small child like Seti to melt the cold heart of the Earl.
02:07But then, this is a tale to melt the very coldest of hearts.
02:14If you love a good story, and don't mind shedding a tear or two, you'll love Little Lord Fauntleroy.
02:21I wonder if Mama's watching the snow come down too.
02:24If anyone had told me I could care for a child as I care for Cedric, I would not have believed it.
02:38Starring the boy who stole your hearts in The Champ, Ricky Schroeder.
02:45Mama!
02:46And Alec Guinness in one of his finest screen performances.
02:54Little Lord Fauntleroy.
02:58A story for anyone who loves a happy ending.

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