Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.
With the other Shirley Temple movies posted recently I am now motivated to share this one, my favorite Shirley movie. If you think as I do that the title is absurd, blame original author Rudyard Kipling. My spoilerish comments on the plot:
Spoiler:
The story was definitely changed in significant ways for the movie adaptation, not least of which being that director John Ford and the scriptwriters very likely had a somewhat different worldview than Kipling. Shirley at first only sees the "fun" side of being a soldier like wearing a smart-looking kilt and marching to bagpipe music. She is distressed to discover that the men she admires so much - on both sides of the conflict - consider killing people the only way to achieve peace. She has different ideas.
[Note: I am Seeding this with a few others on torrent, but at the moment my torrent client is running inexplicably slow. Maybe my ISP has caught on to my excessive torrenting lately?]