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Priscilla Williams, a young girl living with her widowed mother and paternal grandfather at the post he commands in northern India, becomes enamored of military life and embroiled in brewing rebellion against the crown in the early 1900's.

Director: John Ford

Writer: Ernest Pascal, Julien Josephson, Rudyard Kipling

Stars: Shirley Temple, Victor McLaglen, C. Aubrey Smith
Transcript
00:00You made a very good beginning.
00:02Yes, but...
00:03Who ever heard of a soldier called Priscilla?
00:06Aye, that's the point.
00:08You couldn't take Private Priscilla very seriously, could you?
00:12We'd have to find a new name for you.
00:15I got it.
00:17I've got it.
00:19Wee Willy Winky.
00:21Wee Willy Winky?
00:24Was he a friend of yours?
00:26Ah, he was a lad that ran through an old scotch rhyme.
00:31Wee Willy Winky ran through the town.
00:34Wee Willy Winky ran through the town.
00:35He ran through...
00:36Well, he was a lad that was always getting himself into difficulties.
00:46Hmm, sunstroke.
00:47Bad.
00:49Was he a sergeant?
00:51He probably would have been when he grew up.
01:03Wee Willy Winky.
01:05It does sound like a soldier, doesn't it?
01:07Aye.
01:08Then I'd be Private Winky.
01:11Private Winky is a full-fledged soldier of the Queen.
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