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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
Brand: 20th Century Fox
EAN: 0024543029717
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: 20th Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: 20th Century Fox
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 29, 2002
Running Time: 88 minutes
Sales Rank: 24541
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Theatrical Release Date: October 15, 1937
Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
One thing Shirley Temple did extremely well (besides sing, dance, and act) was turn the cranky cuddly. She'd done it effectively, two years prior, in 1935's The Little Colonel with grandfather Lionel Barrymore. Now in Heidi she turns her reclusive grumpy grandfather, Adolf (Jean Hersholt), into the loving sort she knows he really is. Heidi is an orphan, dumped into the Swiss Alps by self-centered Aunt Dete (Mady Christians) onto a grandfather she's never known, but they soon learn to love each other. Heidi's mercenary aunt returns and sells (!) Heidi to a cruel woman, appropriately named Fraulein Rottenmeier (Mary Nash). Adolf sets out on a quest to find his granddaughter. Meanwhile, Heidi charms Klara Sesemann (Marcia Mae Jones), the wealthy handicapped girl in Fraulein Rottenmeier's care. Look for a delightful Arthur Treacher as the Sesemann butler. There's a cute fantasy production number, 'In Our Little Wooden Shoes,' featuring Temple in various period costumes. Throughout Heidi, Temple is, as always, wonderfully joyful. This is perhaps the best-known rendering of the popular children's story by Johanna Spyri (it's been filmed some 10 times). --N.F. Mendoza
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - wonderful classic
This is one of the best of the Shirley Temple films. Remarkable is the fact that she did not overact and that all the supporting cast is supberb.
For those not familiar with the story it is easy to follow and is a pleasure for young ones who have never seen this, and for the older ones who remember seeing it as children
Rating: - Heidi heads home
I purchased this video for my mother who will be giving it as a Christmas gift. We were blessed with getting to know a young lady from Germany who spent the year with my brother as a foreign exchange student. While here, she and another student from Austria watched our video of Heidi so they could compare it to their version. They enjoyed it so much that my mother decided to get her a copy. We are very happy with our purchase - the quick shipment and great packaging got it to us in A-1 condition. ... Read More
Rating: - Far more than just a movie for little girls...
I never watched Shirley Temple growing up. My sister did, but she was not my cup of tea (as is to be expected with any young boy really). Now that I am older and I have a young daughter of my own I have found that I watch, and enjoy, quite a few films that I would have generally avoided.
`Heidi' is one of my favorites.
The film tells the familiar story (it's been told an upwards of ten times already) of young Heidi Kramer, an orphan who is left at her grandfathers doorstep ... Read More
Rating: - Heidi
After 5 tries with 3 other sellers, this one got it right the first time and delivered fast!
Rating: - Classic Shirley Temple
HeidiThis was such a great story and as always Shirley Temple proves that she was a phenomenal actress.
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