Top billed cast

1. 

   Colin Welland

   Willie

2. 

   Michael Elphick

   Peter

3. 

   Robin Ellis

   John

4. 

   John Bird

   Raymond

5. 

   Helen Mirren

   Angela

6. 

   Janine Duvitski

   Audrey

7. 

   Colin Jeavons

   Donald

8. 

   Dennis Potter

   Narrator (voice, uncredited)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written by CinemaSerf on 2024-11-17

Anyone else grow up reading Enid Blyton books? Those "Secret Seven" or "Famous Five" stories where young folks had some jolly japes, sometime tempered with a baddie and some ingenious traps and wheezes? I thought for a while that this is what we were going to get here as a collection of youths are playing merrily in a forest in the middle of WWII. There's no sign of the atrocities of the war per se, here, but as the children play their dialogue and attitudes make it clear that their's isn't the innocence we might have initially expected. There are five boys and two girls and for just over an h...read the rest

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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

Keywords

• 1940s
• gloucestershire
• children