Little Friend (1934)
Directed by Berthold Viertel
Genres - Drama | Run Time - 80 min. | Countries - UK |Share on
Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Fourteen-year-old British actress Nova Pilbeam (best known for her work in Hitchcock's Man Who Knew too Much and Young and Innocent) plays the title role in Little Friend. When her parents (Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood) decide to divorce, poor Felicity Hughes (Pilbeam) seeks out a way to bring them back together. She tells a few "white lies" on the witness stand, which merely exacerbates the situation. Finally she attempts suicide, and it is this that brings Mr. and Mrs. Hughes back to their senses. Surprisingly, the Margaret Kennedy-Christopher Isherwood screenplay isn't as sappy and overdone on screen as it plays on paper.
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child, crisis, custody, custody-battle, daughter, divorce, family, father, mother, parent, suicide, teenagers, wife, witness
