History Film / WeeWillieWinkie

This film also elicited the [[http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/the-disturbingly-suggestive-review-graham-greene-wrote-of-a-shirley-temple-movie-that-nearly-led-to-his-imprisonment.php single creepiest film review ever written]], from the pen of Creator/{{Graham Greene|Author}}. Greene, using some seriously incendiary and creepy language (seriously, read the review), attributed Temple's popularity and film career to pedophilia. The studio sued Greene and his journal into non-existence, forcing the author to hide in Mexico for a couple of years. People have been arguing about that review ever since. While a cynical mind could read some {{Squick}} into other Temple films, like the scene where she's SittingSexyOnAPiano in ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', that sort of subtext is not readily in evidence in ''Wee Willie Winkie''.

* ButtMonkey: A boy soldier is given quite disfavorable treatment in the regiment, being thrown into a tub of water after sounding his bugle under Sgt. [=MacDuff=]'s bed at reveille, or having his new uniform confiscated and [[ShrunkInTheWash shrunken]] in order to equip Priscilla with it. Even his two little dogs are seized [ProtagonistCenteredMorality so that Priscilla can have them].

* ButtMonkey: A boy soldier is given quite disfavorable treatment in the regiment, being thrown into a tub of water after sounding his bugle under Sgt. [=MacDuff=]'s bed at reveille, or having his new uniform confiscated and [[ShrunkInTheWash shrunken]] in order to equip Priscilla with it. Even his two little dogs are seized so that Priscilla can have them.

* MightyWhitey: Absolutely ''drips'' with this trope, which will probably cause [[ValuesDissonance unease]] in latter-day viewers. Col. Williams patiently explains to Shirley that the British are merely there to facilitate trade and make the natives "become civilized", and everything would be awesome if the Afghans would just be quiet and let the British boss them around. Later all the Afghan warriors laugh when Shirley tells them that Queen Victoria wants all her subjects to be happy and rich.

* ButtMonkey: A boy soldier is given quite disfavorable treatment in the regiment, being thrown into a tub of water after sounding his bugle under Sgt. [=MacDuff's=] bed at reveille, or having his new uniform confiscated and [[ShrunkInTheWash shrunken]] in order to equip Priscilla with it. Even his two little dogs are seized so that Priscilla can have them.

* MightyWhitey: Absolutely ''drips'' with this trope, which will probably cause ValuesDissonance to latter-day viewers. Col. Williams patiently explains to Shirley that the British are merely there to facilitate trade and make the natives "become civilized", and everything would be awesome if the Afghans would just be quiet and let the British boss them around. Later all the Afghan warriors laugh when Shirley tells them that Queen Victoria wants all her subjects to be happy and rich.

* ButtMonkey: A boy soldier is given quite disfavorable treatment in the regiment, being thrown into a tub of water after sounding his bugle under Sgt. MacDuff's bed at reveille, or having his new uniform confiscated and [[ShrunkInTheWash shrunken]] in order to equip Priscilla with it. Even his two little dogs are seized so that Priscilla can have them.

* ButtMonkey: A boy soldier is given quite disfavorable treatment in the regiment, being thrown into a water trough after sounding his bugle, or having his new uniform confiscated and [[ShrunkInTheWash shrunken]] in order to equip Priscilla with it. Even his two little dogs are confiscated so that Priscilla can have them.

* DueToTheDead: [[spoiler: Sgt. [=MacDuff=] is escorted to the grave by a full military funeral procession, with Col. Williams and the officers leading the parade, reversed arms, the Pipes and Drums marching behind the gun carriage, and a guard of honor of Indian troops lining the way on horseback.
* EverythingsLouderWithBagpipes: As the story takes place within a Highland regiment, we hear bagpipes throughout, starting with the opening credits. Only three tunes are played, however: "Wha Sae the 42nd", "All the Blue Bonnets Are Over the Border" and "Lord Lovat's Lament". Morning reveille is shown to be less orderly than it probably should have been, with the Pipe Major tuning his pipes[[note]] He should have had them tuned already and should probably have played "Johnnie Cope".[[/note]] When [[spoiler: Sgt. [=MacDuff=] is dying, the Pipe Major is on standby and when he expires, he blows up the pipes and starts playing the lament by his bedside; cue to the Pipes and Drums playing in the funeral procession.]]

Shirley is Priscilla Williams, daughter of Joyce Williams and, more importantly, granddaughter of Colonel Williams, the commander of a [[UsefulNotes/KiplingsFinest British regiment on the Afghan frontier]] of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. Colonel Williams' son having died and left Joyce widowed and impoverished, the Colonel has invited the daughter-in-law and granddaughter (both strangers to him) to stay with his regiment. Priscilla bonds with the gruff sergeant of the regiment, Sgt. [=MacDuff=] (Victor [=McLaglen=]), and Joyce falls in love with Lt. Brandes, but conflicts arise as the two civiilan women try to adjust to life in a frontier fortress. Then war comes when Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero), a Muslim tribal leader, rises up in revolt against the British and attacks the fort.

This film also elicited the [[http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/the-disturbingly-suggestive-review-graham-greene-wrote-of-a-shirley-temple-movie-that-nearly-led-to-his-imprisonment.php single creepiest film review ever written]], from the pen of Creator/GrahamGreene. Greene, using some seriously incendiary and creepy language (seriously, read the review), attributed Temple's popularity and film career to pedophilia. The studio sued Greene and his journal into non-existence, forcing the author to hide in Mexico for a couple of years. People have been arguing about that review ever since. While a cynical mind could read some {{Squick}} into other Temple films, like the scene where she's SittingSexyOnAPiano in ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', that sort of subtext is not readily in evidence in ''Wee Willie Winkie''.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Want to cry? How about you watch the scene where little Priscilla sings "Auld Lang Syne" to Sgt. [=MacDuff=], her big bear of a buddy, as he, unbenownst to her, is dying of a bullet wound. That should do it.

This film also elicited the [[http://www.pajiba.com/celebrities_are_better_than_you/the-disturbingly-suggestive-review-graham-greene-wrote-of-a-shirley-temple-movie-that-nearly-led-to-his-imprisonment.php single creepiest film review ever written]], from the pen of Creator/GrahamGreene. Greene, using some seriously incendiary and creepy language (seriously, read the review), attributed Temple's popularity and film career to pedophilia. People have been arguing about that review ever since. While a cynical mind could read some {{Squick}} into other Temple films, like the scene where she's SittingSexyOnAPiano in ''Film/LittleMissMarker'', that sort of subtext is not readily in evidence in ''Wee Willie Winkie''.

Shirley is Priscilla Williams, daughter of Joyce Williams and, more importantly, granddaughter of Colonel Williams, the commander of a [[KiplingsFinest British regiment on the Afghan frontier]] of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. Colonel Williams' son having died and left Joyce widowed and impoverished, the Colonel has invited the daughter-in-law and granddaughter (both strangers to him) to stay with his regiment. Priscilla bonds with the gruff sergeant of the regiment, Sgt. [=MacDuff=] (Victor [=McLaglen=]), and Joyce falls in love with Lt. Brandes, but conflicts arise as the two civiilan women try to adjust to life in a frontier fortress. Then war comes when Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero), a Muslim tribal leader, rises up in revolt against the British and attacks the fort.

* {{Tearjerker}}: Want to cry? How about you watch the scene where little Priscilla sings "Auld Lang Syne" to Sgt. [=MacDuff=], her big bear of a buddy, as he, unbenownst to her, is dying of a bullet wound. That should do it.

Shirley is Priscilla Williams, daughter of Joyce Williams and, more importantly, granddaughter of Colonel Williams, the commander of a [[KiplingsFinest British regiment on the Afghan frontier]] of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. Colonel Williams' son having died and left Joyce widowed and impoverished, the Colonel has invited the daughter-in-law and granddaughter that are a stranger to him to stay with his regiment. Priscilla bonds with the gruff sergeant of the regiment, Sgt. [=MacDuff=] (Victor [=McLaglen=]), and Joyce falls in love with Lt. Brandes, but conflicts arise as the two civiilan women try to adjust to life in a frontier fortress. Then war comes when Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero), a Muslim tribal leader, rises up in revolt against the British and attacks the fort.

''Wee Willie Winkie'' is a 1937 film directed by Creator/JohnFord, starring Creator/ShirleyTemple.

* AChildShallLeadThem: Well, she isn't a queen or anything. But Shirley, just by her example, winds up getting Khoda Khan to sit down and talk with Col. Williams, leading to a peace agreement.

Shirley is Priscilla Williams, daughter of Joyce Williams and, more importantly, granddaughter of Colonel Williams, the commander of a British regiment on the Afghan frontier of UsefulNotes/TheRaj. Colonel Williams' son having died and left Joyce widowed and impoverished, the Colonel has invited the daughter-in-law and granddaughter that are a stranger to him to stay with his regiment. Priscilla bonds with the gruff sergeant of the regiment, Sgt. [=MacDuff=] (Victor [=McLaglen=]), and Joyce falls in love with Lt. Brandes, but conflicts arise as the two civiilan women try to adjust to life in a frontier fortress. Then war comes when Khoda Khan (Cesar Romero), a Muslim tribal leader, rises up in revolt against the British and attacks the fort.