The Secret Garden Film

The Secret Garden (Film) Gennie James, Barret Oliver, Jadrien Steele, Michael Horden, Billie Whitelaw, Derek Jacobi, Colin Firth. The film, The Secret Garden, is based on the classic children s novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett. It is one of several versions of the classic on film. A young girl, living in India, is left orphaned when her parents die in a plague. She is sent back to England to live in a rural mansion, where she lives with friends of the family. Her guardian is a strange, distant man, Archib