Little Friend

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• 1934
• 1 hr 25 mins
• Drama

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Simplicity and heart-warming qualities are the outstanding attributes of this Gaumont British production, strongly reminiscent of "Wednesday's Child," stage play which excited much comment when it strode the boards in New York not too far back. This is the unaffected story of a poor little rich girl who proves herself to be of stronger and more sterling fiber than the parents that bore her. It tells how, despite her 14 years, she evidences an understanding, born of childish desperation, which outdistances that shown by her paternal and maternal elders, and how, through her own somewhat bewildered decision, she makes them and her happiness join hands once again. Nova Pilbeam, very British, very much made of staunch stuff and far more competent as an actress than might be reasonably expected of the youngster she is, does an excellent job and gives the picture its prime motivation. She is not known here, but not remote by any means is the guess that a demand for her will grow when "Little Friend" makes the theatre rounds. Matheson Lang and Lydia Sherwood are very good and the direction by Berthold Viertel sympathetic. It is Nova, however, who makes the picture the humanly warm and worth while attraction which it is.