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07/12/1972 Family, Fantasy 1h 35m
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Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.

Overview

Mysterious old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in their squalid, tiny Camden Town flat and makes her an offer she cannot refuse. The family become the housekeepers to a derelict country mansion in the charge of the solicitors. One day the children meet the spirits of two other children who died in the mansion nearly a hundred years prior. The children prepare a magic potion that allows them to travel backwards in time to the era of the ghost children. Will the children be able to help their new friends and what will happen to them if they do?

  1. Lionel Jeffries

    Writer, Director

Top billed cast

  1. Laurence Naismith

    Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden

  2. Lynne Frederick

    Lucy Allen

  3. Garry Miller

    James "Jamie" Allen

  4. Rosalyn Landor

    Sara Catherine Latimer

  5. Marc Granger

    Georgie Richard Latimer

  6. Diana Dors

    Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper

  7. Dorothy Alison

    Mrs. Richard Allen

  8. James Villiers

    Uncle Bertie (Albert)

  9. Madeline Smith

    Bella (Arabella)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-03-27
Laurence Naismith is a solicitor who visits a family with an offer for them to help manage a ramshackle country house. Once they arrive, the children start to see the ghostly apparitions of two other children and soon we discover that they were the children of the house before a fire reduced it to it's present state. Aided by a magic potion - together, the four of them piece together what actually happened on that fateful night, and to try and rewrite history. This is a superb, gentle, family drama; the 4 children deliver strong and engaging performances and there are some lovely touches from ...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$0.00

Revenue
$0.00

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