We just watched the DVD version and remember it ending different...
We swear that it ended with Colin and Dicken both wanting Mary and then Mary chose Colin..
It them moves to the future and Mary is in the garden looking at Colin's gravestone and Dicken comes back and comforts her....
Are we going insane?....
Help!!!!!!!
I'm thinking you may be remembering either "Return to the Secret Garden" or "Back to the Secret Garden". I think "Return" dealt with the adult characters returning to the garden. "Back" had a young American discovering the garden, and I believe Colin and Mary were still there. Not sure, though.
shareYou might be thinking of this: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093935/
I definitely was - I watched the whole movie expecting it to end with Colin and Mary in the garden talking about how Dickon died in the war - not a very happy ending, IMHO. Apparently I was thinking of the wrong movie! I guess that's a tv episode, but I'm positive that's what I saw before, maybe it's what you saw too.
I know this is a late answer, really late - but the version with Dickon dying in the war is the Hallmark version - which is also available to buy through Amazon.
In that version she is an adult woman coming back to the Garden in the opening. I think she is wearing a nursing uniform. She sits down, I think has a talk with the gardner, then essentially the rest of the movie is a flashback, and at the end, Colin finds her in the garden - says something about "third time I have asked you - will you marry me?" and she says yes. He asks her something about "what took you so long to say yes?" and she answers "I wanted you to ask me to marry you in our Garden." Sorry my rememberings are so sketchy - I haven't seen this version in years!
Sweet version, but then I also like the black and white version with Margaret O'Brien and a very young Dean Stockwell. What was kinda cool about this version is once the garden is beautiful, whenever the kids are inside, the film goes to color = ala Wizard of OZ.
Arent Colin and Mary First cousins?
shareYes, but in the Hallmark version, they changed it to her father being an old friend of Colin's father... besides, back then it was not uncommon to see cousins marry. Think Ashley and Melanie in Gone with the Wind... or in novels, Mac and Rose in Eight Cousins.
How sad, that you were not born in my time, nor I, in yours.