Wednesday, 15 June 2016

The Amazing Mr Blunden - Lobby Cards (1972)

The Amazing Mr Blunden is a 1972 mystery and ghost film directed by Lionel Jeffries and based on the novel The Ghosts by Antonia Barber.  Although not as well known as Jeffries' The Railway Children, the film was a family favourite, often appeared on television and especially during the Easter and Christmas holidays.




Underage drinking?  Not a bit of it.  This was how they time travelled in 1918. That's Jamie Allen (Garry Miller), and his sister Lucy (Lynne Frederick) who are on their way to save the children seen in the image above this one, from dying in a terrible house fire. Sara Latimer (Rosalyn Landor), and her younger brother, Georgie (Marc Granger) had used the same potion themselves to travel forward from 1818 to elicit their help and to pass on the secret of temporal travel.

The Amazing Mr Blunden is a genuine treat and really was a favourite with my family.  It came on quite regularly back in the day and always to a full sofa. And then it just sort of faded away to memory.  However, having purchased a cheap DVD copy recently, I'm pleased to say that it still holds up very well, in fact there were bits of it that delighted the adult me far more than had the distant child.

One final point to make for those of you that haven't seen it is that the film is actually in colour.  Don't be fooled by the monochromatic lobby cards


Steve
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2 comments:

  1. Sage22 October 2016 at 08:19

    A very good film indeed, a favourite of mine as a child and now a favourite of my children and hopeful my grandchildren in a few years to come.

    A great blog you have here sir.

    Nick

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    1. Steve22 October 2016 at 14:45

      Thanks very much, Nick. It's a bit of a wool gathering ramble wandering around and about the places I used to visit and play as a kid.... just because some of them were fictions doesn't make them any less real. I suspect you played in Strange England to, given that you know and appreciate such things as Mr Blunden.

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