The Amazing Mr. Blunden

"Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight."

1972 1h 35m EN

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6.6

SOLID

★6.6TMDB · 24

FamilyFantasy

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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?

“Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.”

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Cast

Laurence Naismith
Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden
Lynne Frederick
Lucy Allen
Garry Miller
James "Jamie" Allen
Rosalyn Landor
Sara Catherine Latimer
Marc Granger
Georgie Richard Latimer
Diana Dors
Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper
Dorothy Alison
Mrs. Richard Allen
James Villiers
Uncle Bertie (Albert)

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Lionel Jeffries
Writers: Lionel Jeffries
Languages: English
Countries: United Kingdom

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ERA

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54 years old — a genuine piece of film history.

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DIRECTOR

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Directed by Lionel Jeffries, shot by Gerry Fisher. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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DIRECTOR

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Original score by Elmer Bernstein. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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CAST

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Laurence Naismith and Lynne Frederick and Garry Miller carry the top of the cast.

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Marketing tagline: "Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.".

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WILD

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IMDB entry: tt0068200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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WILD

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Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

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The take

Lionel Jeffries directs. Gerry Fisher behind the camera. Elmer Bernstein scores. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United Kingdom. Dialogue in English.

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154 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
2Directed by Lionel Jeffries, shot by Gerry Fisher. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
3Original score by Elmer Bernstein. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
4Laurence Naismith and Lynne Frederick and Garry Miller carry the top of the cast.
5Marketing tagline: "Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.".
6IMDB entry: tt0068200 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
7Only 24 TMDB ratings — you're getting ahead of the curve on this one.

The technical file

Cinematography: Gerry Fisher
Original score: Elmer Bernstein
Production design: Wilfred Shingleton
Makeup / hair: Pat McDermott
Sound: John Hayward
Runtime: 95 min · 1h 35m
Status: Released
Original language: EN
Certification (US): G
IMDB: The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

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CinemaSerf2022-03-27
★ 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.

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