Scandal at Scourie

Scandal at Scourie

90 mins | Drama | May 17, 1953

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.

Scandal at Scourie

90 mins | Drama | May 17, 1953

Scandal at Scourie
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.
IMDb rating 6.6
Producers Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Original title Scandal at Scourie
Directors Jean Negulesco
Writers Mary McSherry, Norman Corwin, Leonard Spigelgass, Karl Tunberg

Cast

Greer Garson

as Victoria McChesney

Walter Pidgeon

as Patrick J. McChesney

Agnes Moorehead

as Sister Josephine

Donna Corcoran

as Patsy

Arthur Shields

as Father Reilly

Philip Ober

as B. G. Belney

Rhys Williams

as Bill Swazey

Margalo Gillmore

as Alice Hanover

John Lupton

as Artemus

Philip Tonge

as Fred Gogarty

Wilton Graff

as Leffington

Ian Wolfe

as Councilman Hurdwell

Michael Pate

as Rev. Williams

Tony Taylor

as Edward

Patricia Tiernan

as Second Nun

Victor Wood

as James Motley

Perdita Chandler

as Sister Dominique

Walter Baldwin

as Michael Hayward

Ida Moore

as Mrs. Ames