[REL] The Secret Garden (1987 TV Movie)

[marvingray]

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093935/

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The Secret Garden is the 1987 Hallmark Hall of Fame made-for-television film adaptation of Frances Hodgson Burnett's 1911 novel The Secret Garden, aired on CBS November 30, 1987 and produced by Rosemont Productions Limited.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Secre ... 1987_film)

Gennie James as Mary Lennox

I did multiple searches for this and couldn't find it on here with the film name and the actress name.

1987 Made for tv version of the story. I consider myself a pretty big fan of this story and my personal ranking would be Secret Garden US Warner Bros film 1993 -> Secret Garden BBC 1975 -> This one -> Secret Garden 2020. (And there is a bbc steampunk one I'll likely never watch...23 yo Mary Lennox....nuff said)

Why? This one seems slightly higher budget than the 1975 BBC version, but the overblown melodramatic soundtrack and occasional shoddy acting pulls this one down a little. We're back in a gothic looking castle in this one "Highclere Castle was used for interior and exterior settings of Misselthwaite Manor." Book Mary herself is a complicated character. She is supposed to be both spoiled and neglected, and each girl has played her slightly differently. This particular girl plays her heavy on the spoiled. She is probably the most nasty Mary of them all.

She berates her dying mother "Mother, Sahib is dead, now I have no one dress me!" (Her Ayah/Full time Indian caretaker) Her spoiled nastiness does add an unintentional element of comedy to the whole thing I enjoyed. She's also randomly American...for some reason?

There are also random, superfluous changes to the story that I'd need to rewatch at least once more before I fully commit to them, but I'm pretty sure she has no relation Colin and Mr Craven in this film? And the bookended future Mary added nothing. In the beginning, Mary is searching for the key, and the idea of the Garden being locked back up defeats the whole purpose of the story.

This is a VHS copy, so if anyone knows of a better copy please share!


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[ferdi111]

It s at youtube but quality isn't great https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iM52be2vWYc
Probably same VHS

[Night457]

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Thank you marvingray! I can't keep up with all these versions of "The Secret Garden". Maybe some day I will have seen them all. I have a DVD5-copy as an upgrade to the VHSrip, provided by a "secret sharer" who chooses to remain anonymous. He describes it as "average DVD quality", but it is clearly an improvement. (The MKV is a 1:1 copy from the DVD.)

Specifications:

Spoiler: General : The Secret Garden (1987).480p.DVD.ENGLISH.EngSub.mkv Format : Matroska at 5 458 kb/s Length : 3.83 GiB for 1 h 40 min 27 s 721 ms Video #0 : MPEG Video at 5 260 kb/s Aspect : 720 x 480 (1.333) at 29.805 fps Audio #0 : AC-3 at 192 kb/s Infos : 2 channels, 48.0 kHz Language : en Text #0 : UTF-8 Language : en

480p English, with optional internal English subtitles:
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[marvingray]

Awesome, I was on the verge of ordering the DVD but I guess this saves me a whole 10 dollars. Honestly, I'll prob get it at some point for completions sake anyways.

[ghost]

480p English, with optional internal English subtitles:

Wow! Thank you. Much better than the VHS copy!

Download is already completed.

[Night457]

The same 480p DVD5-copy MKV, split into 8 RARs for direct-download:

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https://mega.nz/file/tIUhTRgT#DhsKJJ8__XRpB0UWsptx1gpGJJP9ZSEdqUxq0iZvwGM
https://mega.nz/file/YcUWHR7Z#wVHx5vUWFYFMas71L8URumXnh56E6PQW_rh4yXDe4BA
https://mega.nz/file/5QUiiJ6Z#DcDHulVTbY5HBt26lGNblTKQ83ZQrjhWm_ugUbopu8w
https://mega.nz/file/sBsmASAK#HzJwUVLO-NIfIws876Ysdr7tr2iDDNVBK6115rba_wE
https://mega.nz/file/MItiEIhD#CMkdpA2_0n6Bcb-N-9c5q-gVVyXoYLFLSIZQsFbm8FA
https://mega.nz/file/Zc91nBgQ#S0x9LlU17dMxLk3GRVh8mE0kqFopT7bhlDLHuTG53QU
https://mega.nz/file/ZJ8FXT7Z#PIu_1P5zNZH_lfFixQgP92QziaacNNP3Eyo29T0ymCM
https://mega.nz/file/VVlwSSoD#yUJ9Rs31dihe5gRR_FzfP-F9XO3EfDzE6npBOrzC-A8

[ghost]

I scaled it up to 720p. Still not great picture quality, but it looks much better.

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Cleaned and syncronized English subtitles:
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[marvingray]

Thank you, Ghost! It looks so much better now. I'm going to give the movie another shot now that it's not painful to look at.

edit: it's still a pretty bad movie, but at least it looks better now.

[pillowbaker]

Thanks for all your upgrades, ghost! I haven't watch this one yet, so I get to use your upgrade for my first time, with this version of Secret Garden anyways.