 The film was one of several theatrical films based on literary  classics which were released to US schools in the 1950s and 60s,  for showing to children. The others included _Heidi (1937)_ (qv) and  _Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The (1939)_ (qv). They were all  released to the schools in heavily cut versions that had a running  time of no more than forty