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21/12/1970 Drama, Family 1h 49m
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The railway, the children... and the wonderful secret they'll share with you!

Overview

At the dawn of the 20th century, following their father's arrest on suspicion of betraying state secrets, the three Waterbury children—Bobbie, Phyllis and Peter—move with their mother to Yorkshire, where they find themselves involved in unexpected dramas along the railway by their new home.

  1. Lionel Jeffries

    Director, Writer

Top billed cast

  1. Dinah Sheridan

    Mrs. Waterbury

  2. Bernard Cribbins

    Albert Perks

  3. William Mervyn

    Old Gentleman

  4. Iain Cuthbertson

    Charles Waterbury

  5. Jenny Agutter

    Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury

  6. Sally Thomsett

    Phyllis Waterbury

  7. Gary Warren

    Peter Waterbury

  8. Peter Bromilow

    Doctor

  9. Ann Lancaster

    Ruth

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2023-06-03
A well-to-do suburban family suddenly get a visitor one evening; their father is taken away and their lives turned topsy-turvy. They relocate to "Three Chimneys" a ramshackle house beside a railway line in Yorkshire where they slowly settle into a new life making friends as they go. Bernard Cribbins steals this as the permanently chirpy station porter “Mr. Perks" (and Deddie Davies as his long-suffering wife); William Mervyn as the kindly "old gentleman" whom the children wave to every morning as he passes on his train and Peter Bromilow as the doctor all help us to feel a part of this story...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$375,000.00

Revenue
$0.00

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