Scandal at Scourie

Release Date: 1953-05-17

Overview: After their orphanage burns down, a group of children are being transported west by train to Manitoba. All of them are available for adoption and at a stop at Scourie, Ontario little Patsy meets Victoria McChesney. Victoria and her husband Patrick have no children and she immediately decides to adopt the girl. The only condition imposed on them is that as Patsy has been baptized a Roman Catholic the Protestant McChesneys agree to raise her as a Catholic. Patsy is a well-behaved little girl whose only real problem is a school bully, also one of the orphans, who spreads stories that she set their orphanage on fire.

Rating: 6.7 / 10

Cast

Greer Garson

as Victoria McChesney

Walter Pidgeon

as Patrick J. McChesney

Donna Corcoran

as Patsy

Agnes Moorehead

as Sister Josephine

Arthur Shields

as Father Reilly