So Dear to My Heart (1948) on Netflix
Passed19481h 19mAnimationDramaFamily
Jeremiah Kincaid takes in a black-wool lamb its mother has rejected and names him Danny. In 1903 Indiana, he dreams of showing the lamb at the Pike County Fair, but Granny refuses.
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Plot summary
In 1903, Jeremiah Kincaid lives with his Granny on her homestead in Fulton Corners, Pike County, Indiana. He idolizes Dan Patch, the race horse, and dreams of raising a champion of his own. When Granny's sheep have lambs, one black-wool lamb is rejected by its mother, and Jeremiah persuades Granny to let him keep it as a pet. He names the lamb Danny, after the horse, and the Wise Old Owl on cards in his scrapbook urges the lamb to strive for greatness. Danny soon proves destructive around the homestead, and Jeremiah neglects his chores to be near him. Encouraged by his Uncle Hiram and his friend Tildy, Jeremiah sets his heart on entering Danny at the Pike County Fair, but Granny refuses to consider it because of the cost.
Cast
- Spelman B. Collinsas Judge
- Ken Carsonas Voice of Wise Old Owl (voice)
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about So Dear to My Heart (1948)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Walt Disney intended So Dear to My Heart to be Disney's first all live-action feature film, but his distributor RKO convinced him that audiences seeing the word "Disney" expected animation, so the film split the difference and mixed live action with animation.
- The train depot seen in the film was later moved to Ward Kimball's Grizzly Flats Railroad in his backyard, and after that railroad closed, John Lasseter relocated it to the Justi Creek Railway.
- Walt Disney called the film especially close to him because it re-created the small Midwestern farm life at the turn of the twentieth century that he and his brother grew up with as kids in Missouri.
- The film is based on Sterling North's 1943 book Midnight and Jeremiah; North revised the book to parallel the film's storyline changes and then re-issued it under the film's title.
