Movie Cosmos - The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Description:

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?

Top Cast >

Laurence Naismith

As Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden

Lynne Frederick

As Lucy Allen

Garry Miller

As James "Jamie" Allen

Rosalyn Landor

As Sara Catherine Latimer

Marc Granger

As Georgie Richard Latimer

Diana Dors

As Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper

Dorothy Alison

As Mrs. Richard Allen

James Villiers

As Uncle Bertie (Albert)

Madeline Smith

As Bella (Arabella)

David Lodge

As Mr. Wickens

Stuart Lock

As Thomas Mortimer

Deddie Davies

As Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant

Graham Crowden

As Mr. Clutterbuck

Erik Chitty

As Mr. Claverton

Reg Lye

As Sexton

Paul Eddington

As Vicar

Aimée Delamain

As Elsie Tucker

Paddy Ward

As Bus Driver

Top Crew >

Lionel Jeffries

Writer, Director

Barry Levinson

Producer

Gerry Fisher

Director of Photography

Elmer Bernstein

Original Music Composer

Vicki Deason

Production Secretary

Wilfred Shingleton

Production Design

Roy Forge Smith

Art Direction

George Frost

Makeup Artist

Pat McDermott

Hairstylist

Bruce Sharman

Production Supervisor

Michael Murray

Third Assistant Director

Clive Reed

Assistant Director

Dusty Symonds

Second Assistant Director

Bryan Graves

Set Dresser

George Hill

Construction Manager

Gordon Everett

Sound Mixer

John Hayward

Sound Re-Recording Mixer

Gordon K. McCallum

Sound Recordist

Bernard Ford

Camera Operator

Elsa Fennell

Wardrobe Supervisor

Roger Wilson

Assistant Editor

Pamela Davies

Continuity

Antonia Barber

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Reviews:

CinemaSerf (7/10)

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 Graham Crowden as "Mr. Clutterbuck" and Diana Dors as the evil "Mrs. Wickens". Written and directed by Lionel Jeffries, this is the kind of family drama we just don't make nowadays.

2022-03-27