entertaining
Added 11/16/2009
This is one of Shirley's best in my opinion. I have watched this over and over. Good for the young at heart. Happy viewing
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Good music and the beautiful Alice Faye
Added 3/7/2008
I'm not necessarily a fan of Shirley Temple but I love Alice Faye so I own this VHS. Alice made one other film with Shirley Temple (Poor Little Rich Girl) and I own that also. She sings 2 songs in this one: "Good Night, my Love" is the better. Very few of Alice Faye's 1930s films are available on VHS and DVD. If you don't know Alice Faye, I would recommend "Lillian Russell" or "Weekend in Havana" (both are on DVD). You can also buy CDs of her music (and wonderful voice).
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A real classic
Added 4/27/2005
Geourgeuos Shirley Temple plays Ching-Ching a little girl who was orphaned and then left as a stowaway. The child genius Shirley is speaks fluent Chinese and makes it look easy. Alice Faye who also stars in this lovely film, also shows great acting skills and so does they very funny and entertaining Robert Young. The movie is partially set on a cruise boat which has amzing scenery which makes the movie even better. This is a wonderful movie and will bring an everlasting smile to your face!
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one of Shirley Temple's best
Added 3/30/2005
STOWAWAY is one of Shirley Temple's best films, from her middle years with Twentieth Century-Fox. She gets to speak in another language and impresses with her impersonation skills.
She plays Ching-Ching, the enchanting young ward of two Chinese missionaries who are killed. Ching-Ching is smuggled away to Shanghai by the faithful Sun-Lo (Philip Ahn), only to get mixed up with carefree playboy Tommy Randall (Robert Young) after taking refuge in the trunk of his car. The car is loaded into the cargo of a luxurious ocean liner, of which Tommy is a passenger. Thus, Ching-Ching becomes the 'stowaway' of the title.
Alice Faye turns in a great performance as Susan, another passenger on the ship, traveling with her prospective mother-in-law (Helen Westley). All kinds of misadventures and misunderstandings occur before Ching-Ching ultimately brings together Tommy and Susan. Temple displays her uncanny skill for impersonation with her delightful takes on Al Jolson, Eddie Cantor and Ginger Rogers dancing with Fred Astaire!
Shirley Temple sings "Goodnight My Love", "You Gotta S.M.I.L.E." and "That's What I Want for Christmas" and Alice Faye performs "One Never Knows". Truly a delightful film. This is the colourised edition, but do yourself a favour and turn down the colour setting on your TV - and watch the film as it was originally intended to be screened.
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Shirley will make you H-A-double P-Y
Added 1/29/2005
This is one of Shirley's greatest films she ever made. In this movie you see
all of that talent shine through with a great cast, sweet music, and a
lovable story you can't go wrong with this Temple treasure.
In this film Shirley becomes a little lost girl after wandering away from
her care-giver and by luck runs into Robert Young who becomes quickly
charmed by little Shirley who speaks fluent Chinese and knows dozens of
Chinese proverbs, When, Shirley accidently wanders onto Young's ship and
quickly becomes a Stowaway making another friend Faye who returns her to her
friend Young-- both Young and Faye fall in love with Shirley and un-knowly
with eachother. When they learn Shirley must be sent to orphanage both are
eager to adopt the Young girl only problem-- it has to be a married couple.
So, both of them get married to be a "marriage in name only" but, will
divorce when they arrive back in the states-- but things don't go as planned
when a well-meaning judge and Shirley team up-together to save the couple.
A great Temple film featuring two of her hits "You Got To Smile To Be H-A-
double-P-Y" and "Goodnight, My Love" this movie includes Shirley doing an
impressive Astaire imitation and of course her precious nature. Shirley is
adorable in this film and quickly you fall in love with her as the Chinese
missionary orphan. Young also does a fabulous job as the instant father who
is changed for the better because of Shirley. Faye also has a beautiful
voice that you get the chance to hear in "Good-night My Love."
All in all this movie will make you H-A- double P-Y.
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Amazon description error
Added 11/21/2009
The "Format" line in the Amazon description of this DVD states that it is in color and widescreen. Both of these are incorrect. This is not the colorized version and it is a full-frame (4/3) not a widescreen (16/9) image. The DVD case accurately states this so the error is Amazon's.
This does not detract from the fact that this is a delightful movie that showcases Shirley at her best.
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Enjoyable, Light Fare
Added 9/4/2009
A little girl orphaned by her missionary parents, Barbara (Shirley Temple), or "Ching Ching" as she likes to be called, is a bright-eyed youngster in a scary world. In spite of her guardian's wishes, she is smuggled aboard a boat to avoid certain death. She is robbed, but she soon finds her way to a wealthy American playboy who she dons Uncle Tommy (Robert Young). Tommy takes care of her for a while, but she gets lost and ends up a stowaway aboard a ship carrying both Uncle Tommy and the beautiful Susan Parker (Alice Faye). Susan is engaged, but Ching Ching does her best to get them together.
For the most part, this is a sweet, run-of-the-mill light romance. The love story isn't especially exciting or unique, but it serves its purpose to move the story along. Shirley Temple is certainly the main attraction and she gets many moments to shine. Unfortunately, there are a few moments where her interactions with the adults are too sweet and overly done. For example, when little Ching Ching jokes with Tommy in his car outside of the bar, she says something lame and they laugh loudly together, and the scene feels very forced. These bits make the movie feel like a kid's movie, but thankfully there are very few moments like this.
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Shirley Speaks Chinese!
Added 4/30/2009
Shirley Temple is in Shanghai for this feel-good musical-drama-romance. She is an inadvertent stowaway in this story and even speaks in Chinese quite a bit. In addition she relates a few profound and touching Chinese sayings and does a cute song on stage on the boat.
Looking after her are the adults leads: Robert Young (who looks very young in here) and Alice Faye. Also fun to see, speaking of young, is Arthur Treacher, who has some funny lines.
There is not a lot of funny material in here but it's a nice film and definitely good addition to any Shirley Temple collection. I also saw a colorized VHS edition of this, and it was one of the better jobs in that regard, but I'll take the sharper black-and-white DVD transfer any time!
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