The Borrowers

(1973)

81 minutes.

Film / Fantasy / Comedy / Drama / Made-For-TV

Directed by Walter C. Miller

Cast: Eddie Albert, Tammy Grimes and Dame Judith Anderson

This episode of The Hallmark Hall of Fame is an adaptation of The Borrowers by Mary Norton, and starring Eddie Albert is a classic. The Borrowers follow the fortunes of tiny humans who live beneath the floorboards in the mansion of a Victorian matron, played by Dame Judith Anderson. They live on the scraps left by “The Big People” and live a relatively idyllic existence until they are discovered by the matron's eight-year-old nephew. Can they avoid capture, and being exhibited as scientific curiosities?