Little Miss Marker (1980) - DVD

The first film version of Damon Runyon's 1932 short story gave Shirley Temple her first feature starring assignment as little Marthy InchMarkyInch Jane, an adorable tyke left to bookie Sorrowful Jones (Adolphe Menjou) as a gambling marker. Marky's influence leads Sorrowful to try to mend his ways and marry his nightclub singer sweetheart Bangles Carson (Dorothy Dell). Charles Bickford, Lynne Overman, Warren Hymer also star. 80 min. Standard; Soundtrack English; Subtitles English; audio commentary.

Little Miss Marker stars Julie Andrews and Walter Matthau in a hilarious remake of the original 1934 film. "Sorrowful" Jones (Matthau) is a grouchy, horse-racing bookie who makes his living off other people's losses. He's got a reputation to keep, so when an out-of-luck gambler begs him to accept his daughter as a "marker" on a debt, Jones says "yes." Stuck with the girl, he soon realizes that the six-year-old beauty may be more than

Shirley Temple plays Sara Crewe, the privileged daughter of Captain Reginald Crewe. When the Captain leaves to fight in Africa's Boer War, Sara is enrolled into an upper-crust school for girls in London. All is well until Sara's father is reported dead. When Sara's intuition tells her the Captain is still alive, she begins hunting London military hospitals, culminating in what Times's critic Janet Maslin called... a happy ending sure to make even grown-up viewers cry. Newly restored in HD.