Thomas Beck credited as playing...
Pastor Schultz
- Pastor Schultz: I do not know this Adolph Kramer, but the village thinks that the child should be taken away from him.
- Blind Anna: You have just come to Dörfli, Herr Pastor, or you'd understand why.
- Pastor Schultz: They say you have known Kramer for 50 years. What sort of a man is he?
- Blind Anna: Who knows? He was a grand young man, except for his wild temper. And his son grew up just like him. Tobias wanted to marry a girl from Mayenfeld. Adolph disliked her and forbade it, but the boy married her just the same and brought her home. Adolph turned them away in a rage and told Tobias never to come back until he'd given up the girl.
- Pastor Schultz: But why should the village hate him and fear him so?
- Blind Anna: Feuds and weeds grow quickly, Herr Pastor. The people of the village sided with the boy and the father cursed them and went and built himself a hut on the mountain. Since that day, he's never spoken to a living soul.
- Pastor Schultz: Frau Anna, is the child safe with him?
- Blind Anna: God knows. Living alone like that has made him a strange creature.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I ask the Herr Pastor to forgive the words I said on the mountain.
- Pastor Schultz: The words are forgotten, neighbor. This is a happy day for all of us. I - I hope we shall see you here often.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: What do you say, Heidi?
- Heidi: Well, I think everybody really ought to go to church on Sunday and I think there ought to be a Frau Schultz.
- Pastor Schultz: You're going for the child?
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I am.
- Pastor Schultz: You're not walking all the way to Frankfurt? It's over 100 miles!
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I shall get there.
- Villager 1: Wait, neighbor.
- Franz: Let us lend you enough for your railway fare.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: That's kind of you, Franz, but my legs will carry me. And I have money to bring us back on the train.
- Villager 2: Auf Wiedersehen.
- Villager 3: Goodbye.
- Villager 4: Good luck, Adolph.
- Pastor Schultz: God speed to you, neighbor.
- Elsa: You're mending your grandfather's coat. How nice.
- Heidi: It's his Sunday coat, but he never wears it. He doesn't go to church.
- Pastor Schultz: Perhaps we could persuade him to go. Would you like that?
- Heidi: Pastor and Fräulein Elsa have come to see us. Isn't that nice?
- Pastor Schultz: Good day, neighbor.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Well?
- Pastor Schultz: We've come to ask about the child.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Go inside, Heidi. Save your breath. I have nothing to say to you.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I'll not send Heidi to school.
- Pastor Schultz: What will you do with her, then?
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: She will thrive up here with the goats and the birds.
- Pastor Schultz: What will she learn from them?
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: At least she will learn no evil.
- Pastor Schultz: That's hardly enough schooling for a child.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I'll teach her all that's necessary.
- Pastor Schultz: Then you will teach her religion, too?
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: The mountains will be the only religion worth having, as I have found out.
- Pastor Schultz: Come back to Dörfli, neighbor. This is no life up here for you and the child, at enmity with God and man.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: I know what they think of me in Dörfli, and they know what I think of them. It's better that we keep apart.
- Pastor Schultz: I should not like to appeal to the law.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: Heidi shall not go to school or to church either. That is final.
- Pastor Schultz: I'm sorry, neighbor. May God help you.
- Adolph Kramer, The Grandfather: And if any man tried to take Heidi away from me, God help HIM.
- Pastor Schultz: If a man have a hundred sheep and one of them be gone astray, doth he not leave the ninety and nine and goeth into the mountains and seeketh that which hath gone astray? And if...
- [Heidi and her grandfather enter the church. Pastor Schultz pauses]
- Blind Anna: Peter, what is it?
- Peter the Goat Boy: The Grandfather and Heidi have come to church.
- Pastor Schultz: And if so be that he find it, verily I say unto you, he rejoices more of that sheep than of the ninety and nine which went not astray.