Daisy von Sherler Mayer directed this family film, an adaptation of the famed book series that Austrian-born writer-illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans (1898-1962) launched in 1939 with the opening lines, "In an old house in Paris that was covered with vines lived twelve little girls in two straight lines. In two straight lines they broke their bread and brushed their teeth and went to bed. They smiled at the good and frowned at the bad and sometimes they were very sad. They left the house at half past nine in two straight lines in rain or shine -- the smallest one was Madeline." This live-action film interpretation, set during the mid-1950s, expands on plot elements found throughout several books in the series. Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne) plans to sell the small French boarding school where the young orphan Madeline (nine-year-old British actress Hatty Jones) lives with other girls under the supervision of sympathetic schoolmistress Miss Clavel (Frances McDormand). Hospitalized after an appendectomy, Madeline wanders down the hospital hallway and meets Covington's dying wife, Lady Covington (Stephane Audran), an encounter which becomes an asset in Madeline's efforts to save the school. Moving into the house adjacent to the school is the family of the Spanish Ambassador (Arturo Venegas), including his young son Pepito (Kristian de la Osa), who spends a good deal of time wheeling about on his Vespa, so noisy it serves to irritate possible buyers of the school. When Madeline falls into the Seine, she is rescued by a dog, Genevieve, who immediately becomes the school's mascot and pet, despite the "no pets" rule and Miss Clavel's allergy to dogs. Pepito's somewhat sinister British tutor Leopold (Ben Daniels) engineers a plan that leads to the county fair kidnapping of Pepito and Madeline. First filmed by UPA in the early '50s as the Oscar-nominated animated cartoon short, Madeline (1952), decades passed before other adaptations appeared: the 23-minute Madeline's Rescue and Other Stories (1990, available from Facets Video), narrated by Louise Roberts; and the 1989-1993 series of half-hours narrated by Christopher Plummer -- Madeline, Madeline and the Bad Hat, Madeline and the Gypsies, Madeline in London, Madeline's Christmas, and Madeline's Rescue. MGM's 1945 Fred AstaireVincente Minnelli film Yolanda and the Thief also adapted Bemelmans. Daisy von Scherler Mayer's earlier Party Girl (1995) was the first feature film seen in its entirety on the Internet. ~ Bhob Stewart, All Movie Guide 译文(3): 黛西·冯·舍勒·梅尔执导了这部家庭电影，这部电影改编自奥地利出生的作家插画家路德维希·贝梅尔曼斯（1898-1962）于1939年推出的著名系列丛书，其开场白是：；在巴黎的一座布满藤蔓的老房子里，住着两条直线上的十二个小女孩。他们一连吃了两次面包，刷牙就上床睡觉了。他们对好人微笑，对坏人皱眉，有时他们很伤心。他们在九点半离开房子，风雨无阻，排成两条直线——最小的一条是玛德琳"；这部以1950年代中期为背景的真人电影诠释了该系列中几本书中的情节元素。科温顿勋爵（奈杰尔·霍桑饰）计划出售这所法国寄宿制小学校，孤儿玛德琳（9岁的英国女演员海蒂·琼斯饰）和其他女孩在同情的女教师克莱维尔小姐（弗朗西丝·麦克多曼饰）的监督下住在那里。在阑尾切除术后住院，玛德琳在医院走廊上徘徊，遇到了科温顿即将去世的妻子科温顿夫人（斯蒂芬妮·奥德兰饰），这场相遇成为玛德琳拯救学校的一笔财富。搬到学校附近的房子里的是西班牙大使（阿图罗·威尼加斯饰）的家人，其中包括他的小儿子佩皮托（克里斯蒂安·德拉·奥萨饰），他花了很多时间在他的Vespa上闲逛，噪音太大，可能会激怒学校的买家。
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