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Movie · 1953

Scandal at Scourie

Released 17 May 1953 More from 1953 → Letterboxd ↗ · TMDB ↗

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.

FR·01

How old were they?

Oldest first
Walter Baldwin
as Michael Hayward
64
Arthur Shields
as Father Reilly
57
Walter Pidgeon
as Patrick J. McChesney
55
Rhys Williams
as Bill Swazey
55
Wilton Graff
as Leffington
49
Greer Garson
as Victoria McChesney
48
Michael Pate
as Rev. Williams
33
John Lupton
as Artemus
24
FR·02

The numbers

Computed from the cast above
40years between the oldest and youngest billed
64Walter Baldwin — oldest on the call sheet
24John Lupton — youngest billed
48average age of the credited cast
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