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WillSushyMedia This movie was so-so. It had it's moments, but wasn't the greatest.

Neive Bellamy Excellent and certainly provocative... If nothing else, the film is a real conversation starter.

aidinglemons This movie made me happy and not a lot of movies do that nowadays. Even though the mood of the movie changed halfway through, I think it helped differentiate between the 12 year old and the adult. I highly recommend this movie to everyone!The first time I saw this movie was late at night. My dad was flipping through channels and came across this movie and said that I would love it. Not just because it has Mary Pickford in it. So I was allowed to stay up until midnight on a school night, and back then it was a big deal! That suddenly became my dad's and my thing, to stay up late and watch old movies. I will always love this movie for itself and now it's sentimental value.

Cyke 030: Daddy Long-Legs (1919); released 5/11/1919, viewed 1/19/2006.Moscow becomes the new capital of Soviet Russia. The Red Sox defeat the Cubs in the World Series. The Great War ends when Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies. New nations and republics are popping up all over Europe.BIRTHS: Spike Milligan, William Holden, Jack Paar, Mike Wallace, Ingmar Bergman, Nelson Mandela, Art Carney. DEATHS: The Royal Family of Russia.KEVIN: Of all the Mary Pickford movies we've viewed, I enjoyed Daddy Long Legs the most. The first half was better than the second half, however. Things were more interesting and energized when Judy was at the orphanage, (but I guess they couldn't drag that out for the whole movie) then things calmed down a lot when Judy gets sent to college. The almost slapstick feel of the orphanage scenes reminded me of Chaplin, and it was cool to see a woman at the center of the craziness. I wasn't too sure about the ending though, where Pendleton, the man who was pining after her, turns out to have been her benefactor all along. Overall, I'm very glad I watched this movie. It gave me a much better idea of what Mary Pickford was all about.DOUG: Our second Mary Pickford film in this set, and what would have been our third film overall is Daddy Long Legs. I enjoyed this movie more than Stella Maris. I was a little confused at the beginning about exactly how old Judy is supposed to be. I know that tiny Mary Pickford was playing little girls well into her thirties, and wasn't really sure if she was as old as the other kids or not. Apparently not, since she is quickly shipped over to college halfway into the film. I fell asleep through part of it and had to go back and watch it again, and I had some trouble remembering which of the two male leads (Jarvis and Jerry) was which. I never guessed that Jarvis was Daddy Long Legs all along, so that made an excellent ending to the movie.Last film: Stella Maris (1918). Next film viewed: Mark of Zorro (1920). Next film chronologically: Broken Blossoms (1919).The Movie Odyssey is an exhaustive, chronological project where we watch as many milestone films as possible, starting with D.W. Griffith's Intolerance in 1916 and working our way through, year by year, one film at a time. We also write a short review for each and every film. In this project, we hope to gain a deeper understanding of the time period, the films of the era, and each film in context, while at the same time just watching a lot of great movies, most of which we never would have watched otherwise.

mlevans I caught about 1/3 (in the middle) of Daddy Long-Legs on AMC and remarked to myself what a good actress the girl playing Judy was. It was only after my curiosity was piqued that I found out the title and that this was none other than the renowned Mary Pickford. It was my first date with America's Sweetheart.Since then I have bought three films over the Internet, Croquette, Daddy Long-Legs and Stella Maris. I have yet to see the third of these. I just watched Daddy Long-Legs in its entirety (tinted VHS version) and was most impressed. I also ordered and read a biography of Ms. Pickford during the interim.Have no doubt: this lady could act. While she showed in Croquette that she would probably have adjusted well to sound and mature roles, had her public been willing to accept this, we see her in her true element in Daddy Long-Legs.Hollywood silents were entering their maturity in 1919 and this was a solid one. I'm not sure if the tinting was original (as in the case of Nosferatu, which Kino lovingly restored) or added. If it IS original, it is marvelous. I wonder how close the orchestra score is to the tunes audiences would have heard performed during the film at theatres.The cast is solid and Pickford is brilliant. I have to defend a couple of criticisms of the screenplay. I don't feel Miss Pritchett is inconsistent in trying to help Judy catch the train. After all, SHE would look bad if her charge missed the train after the rich new director had gone to the trouble of making these arrangements. Plus, her relationship to Judy changes somewhat at that point. While Judy had always been a thorn in her side, she suddenly becomes someone who can make HER look good if she succeeds in college – sort of like a pro athlete making his/her high school coach look good. Obviously, had Judy been kicked out of college, she would have had nothing more to do with her and would have felt justified in her earlier harsh treatment of her.The question about her increase in scholarship is a legitimate one. It troubles me a tad. Yet it appears that at least a couple – and probably four – of years go by between her arrival at and graduation from college. Since she has no boyfriend to start with, no parents to miss, etc., it stands to reason that she would likely have poured herself into diligent study, as she had to her work at the orphanage. She may well have been exceptionally bright, but merely lacking much "book learning." Is this a stretch? Maybe. Maybe not. I would say getting a novel published on the second try at that age is a bigger stretch … but, still, with a story like the one she would have had to tell, it seems feasible, too.I wish we had a version restored to the 16 apertures per second, or whatever the silent film era speed was. Nosferatu is glorious with remastered and restored sound and speed. This version is still a tad faster than normal … but it still flows very well.It is easy to see why Mary Pickford was America's Sweetheart. Watch Daddy Long-Legs and fall in love with her, yourself!

claudecat Mary Pickford gives her usual delightful performance in "Daddy Long Legs", but the screenplay for this movie drove me crazy. The storyline jumps around and is misleading. For example, Mary's character Judy is at first shown to be a tomboy who speaks the sort of Huck Finn dialect that silent-film intertitle writers found so amusing, but suddenly we're told that she's a brilliant scholar. The impression I had up to then was that the orphanage kids weren't exactly being given a stellar education. The supporting characterizations are also inconsistent. The orphanage mistress is mostly murderously abusive, but then is shown desperately trying to help Judy catch a train to a new school. Why does she suddenly care? Judy's young suitor is portrayed alternately as an oafish fool and a charming lad, 'til we don't know what we're supposed to think of him. I'm not saying movie characters should be one-note--the heartless rich girl in the story is so unbelievably mean that she's dull--but the extreme switches indicate that the screenplay wasn't well-thought-out. There are loads of loose ends: what was the deal with the broken tail-light? What happened to the $1000 check? Why was Mary too ashamed to tell a certain story about herself, but not too ashamed to write a book about it? AND DID THAT GIRL EVER GET OUT OF THE WELL? I also was kind of creeped out by the Jarvis Pendleton character--he was too controlling. There are good things in the film besides Mary: the photography and tinting are beautiful (though the untinted whites of Mary's eyes are a little distracting), I liked the score, and the subject of the orphanage was an important one in its day. (I just today heard a radio documentary that discussed orphanages of that period, and they were much worse than the one in the film, which I had wrongly assumed was exaggerated.) To the film's credit, Judy works hard to become independent, but that aspect of the story isn't fully explored.All in all, worth it for serious Mary fans, but for everyone else, I'd recommend "My Best Girl" over this one any day.