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The `Garden' Of Delight; CBS's Absorbing Version of a Classic
From: The Washington Post
Date: 19871130
Author:Tom Shales
If there'll always be an England, there'll also always be watercress sandwiches. And moors. Watercress sandwiches and moors just about sum it up, with perhaps some bad manners thrown in. Such is the stuff of tonight's very handsome and engrossing CBS movie "The Secret Garden," based on the 1911 novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
The film, at 9 on Channel 9 (a bit late for some of the children who would enjoy it most), tells the tale of young Mary Lennox, orphaned in the opening reel when her parents are murdered in Victorian India, then sent to Yorkshire to live with a mysterious guardian ...
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