The Littlest Rebel

United States

1935

70 Min

Black and White

1.37:1

English

Currently 2.5/5 Stars.
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SCR Edwin J. Burke, Edward Peple, Harry Tugend

CAST Shirley Temple, John Boles, Jack Holt, Karen Morley, Bill Robinson

Virginia’s (Shirley Temple) father, a rebel officer, sneaks back to his rundown plantation to see his family and is arrested. A Yankee takes pity and sets up an escape. Everyone is captured and the officers are to be executed. Virginia and “Bojangles” Robinson beg President Lincoln to intercede. —IMDb

Director

David Butler

David Butler (December 17, 1894 – June 14, 1979) was an American actor, film director, film producer, screenwriter and television director.

Butler was born in San Francisco. His mother was an actress and his father was a theater stage manager. His first acting roles were playing extras in stage plays. He later appeared in two D.W. Griffith films, The Girl Who Stayed Home and The Greatest Thing in Life. He also appeared in the 1927 Academy-award winning film 7th Heaven. The same year he made his directorial debut with High School Hero, a comedy for Fox. During Butler’s nine-year tenure at Fox, he directed over thirty films, including four Shirley Temple vehicles. Butler’s last film for Fox, Kentucky, won Walter Brennan an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. He then worked with Bing Crosby in Road to Morocco and If I Had My Way. He also directed Doris Day in Tea For Two, By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Lullaby of Broadway, and Calamity Jane. During the late 50s and 1960s… read more