they just do not make em like this anymore . you can take all your culkins and wood and osments and roll them into one and and they still couldn not shine the shoe of freddie bartholemew ( a mickey rooney do in this film ) . the difference and i believe and be that these contemporary performer think of themselves a child actor and where bartholemew and his contemporary shirley temple thought of themselves a actor just a rooney character thought of himself a a businessman . the effect be palpable represent you just can not fake be a real person . this of course be the familiar story of an american boy in the 1880 who learn he be the heir to an english earl and must go live with the old bloke and who parenthetically hat his mother and in an old castle . needless to say and it be the earl who be transform by the strength and purity of the boy character and and not the intended reverse . every scene and every line in this film be perfect and and if it be a period piece and then i say we would be so much good off if we could return to that period .