Pippi Longstocking

Pippi Longstocking is a young girl with red hair and remarkable strength who settles alone into her father's house, Villa Villekulla, with her horse and a monkey named Mr. Nilsson for company. She soon becomes friends with Tommy and Annika, the children next door, and the three share a series of adventures that set the quiet town against Pippi's free-spirited ways. Two crooks, Donner-Karlsson and Blom, take an interest in her, and a children's welfare official, Fröken Prysselius, tries to move her into a home.

The film is a compilation of the Swedish television series based on Astrid Lindgren's books, with Lindgren herself writing the screenplay. Olle Hellbom directed; it was his third feature, following Summer Dream, and he went on to direct Pippi Goes on Board, Pippi in the South Seas and Pippi on the Run, along with The Brothers Lionheart in 1977. Inger Nilsson plays Pippi, with Pär Sundberg and Maria Persson as Tommy and Annika, and Margot Trooger, Hans Clarin and Paul Esser in supporting roles. A German-Swedish production, it runs 100 minutes and holds a rating of 7 out of 10 on IMDb from roughly 5,900 votes, and 6.8 out of 10 on TMDB from about 167 votes, indicating a solid and lasting audience following.