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The Secret Garden (1949)

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The Secret Garden (1949)

Anthony Esolen
Jan 5
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The Secret Garden (1949)

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Mr. Craven (Herbert Marshall) has shut up the high-walled garden that his wife loved, where she suffered the accident that caused her death. The servants are forbidden to enter it. But, as in so many tales inspired by a Christian vision of the world, salvation comes to the man from a child, and in ways that he least expects.

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