FirstWitch A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Verity Robins Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

Bob This is one of the best movies I’ve seen in a very long time. You have to go and see this on the big screen.

Logan By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.

Justino Izquierdo This is an all-time favorite movie for our family, my girls and I watched it many time as they were growing. When I first watched the movie I had no idea this was the original, what a beautiful and pleasant surprise my girls, mom, and I loved it, in fact my youngest daughter looks a lot like Elizabeth Sigmund which made me love the film even more. I'm very fortunate to have found this VHS film at the Goodwill store: it will be treasured. The Swiss Alps are just majestic and beautiful, and even though the film is in black and white the beauty of the Alps is undeniable. the story is a classic filled with love,passion,drama,and humor. The cast is just excellent, for me this film lack nothing. The Hollywood versions of this classic are well made movies,and are the ones I grow up with, however, this Heidy by Mr. Luigi Comencini tops them all.

dspeer8 This is an all-time favorite movie of my family as kids growing up. Whenever we get together we find opportunities to use lines from the movie for various situations. For instance, when the woman frantically calls the butler, Saisamond! Saisamond! that always cracks us up. The story is just wonderful, the characters believable, and even the dubbed words are not a problem. I forgot that they were dubbed. I agree with others who have said that the Shirley Temple version pales in comparison with this version. Would love to have it. I would like to get a copy of the movie. Could someone email how I can get a copy of it. dspeer8@gmail.com Thanks.

writers_reign The lack of pretension, straightforward storyline and location shooting force you to judge this film as what it is, namely a fairly faithful adaptation of a children's classic with a cast of carefully chosen actors, a good central performance, solid support and lots of beautiful scenery. By now the story of the young Swiss girl living in a mountain village with her adored grandfather, being whisked off to Frankfurt and then returning home has been told and re-told on film and television, not least in 1937 when child star Shirley Temple, then at the height of her fame, made a not-too-successful stab at the role and though I haven't seen the Temple version I can well imagine how Swiss she sounded if indeed they didn't transpose it to the Rockies. This version from 1952 is both pleasant and watchable.

nellybly I haven't seen this movie since I was a child but even then I preferred it over the Shirley Temple film.The version I saw was dubbed into English. Normally that irritated me (and still does, the rare times I see a dubbed movie--nowadays they're more often subtitled) but it actually made it easier to get into the movie because I didn't have to read any subtitles (and I don't know German). I read well above my grade level but it still would have been distracting. Now I probably wouldn't mind.This movie is much more faithful to the book than the 1937 version.Probably because it was filmed in Switzerland, where the story takes place, it has beautiful scenery. They didn't have use any back projections and sound stages for the outdoor sequences, something I noticed even as a child.I looked forward to each time it came on TV in the Los Angeles area, where I grew up. I don't why they stopped showing it unless it was because the Shirley Temple version, which began to be shown a lot at that time, simply displaced it. If so, it's a shame. I'd love to see it again (and again and again, just like back then).I was always fascinated with the story because my great-grandmother was from Switzerland and was a child at the time the book was originally published.