Fanchon the Cricket

Given a rustic upbringing by her eccentric grandmother, wild-child waif Fanchon (Mary Pickford) knew little but scorn from the locals. After she saves local gentry Landry Barbeau (Jack Standing) from drowning, however, she finds herself on the end of an unanticipated--and perhaps heartbreaking--courtship. Uncovered adaptation of George Sand’s "La Petite Fadette" co-stars Lottie Pickford, Jack Pickford, Gertrude Norman, Russell Bassett; James Kirkwood, Sr. directs. 115 min. Standard; Soundtrack: music score. Silent with music score. Two-disc set.