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There are several moments when Mary (Margaret O'Brien) refers to her servant in India. When watching the film, one hears the word "servant", but Mary's mouth is clearly forming the word "Aya" as in other versions of The Secret Garden.
Dickon is supposed to be around the same age as Mary and Colin (10 years old), but the actor who portrayed him, Brian Roper, was about 20 years old at the time of filming. Margaret O'Brien and Dean Stockwell also were a few years older than the characters they played.
The movie inspired the short-lived The Secret Garden (1952), with Brian Roper reprising his role as Dickon. The series, which was broadcast live, is believed to be lost.
Though a noteworthy MGM adaptation of the acclaimed 1909 childhood tale by Frances Hodgson Burnett, this film, complete with three Technicolor sequences, failed to garner a contemporary New York Times review.
In this film, Manchester-born George Zucco, the slimy mad doctor or smooth-talking villain of so many horror and mystery films (e.g., Prof. Moriarty in The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939), Charlie Chan in Charlie Chan in Honolulu (1938), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Mummy's Hand (1940), The Mummy's Tomb (1942), The Mad Ghoul (1943), Voodoo Man (1944)) has one of his few sympathetic roles as the kindly Dr. Fortescue.
"Martha: My brother Dickon will be coming up to see thee. Mary Lennox: Your brother? Martha: Aye, thou'll like Dickon. What a one he is for growing things and the animals. Half lives on it, he does, almost like an animal himself."
"Mary Lennox: What were you doing watching me? Dickon: I came to play with thee. My mother thought thou might be lonely. Mary Lennox: Well, I'm not, and I don't play with any servant's brother. I never heard of anything so ridiculous. Thou can just go home. [Dickon laughs] Mary Lennox: I mean, you can just go home."
