The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

User Rating:

6.6/10   

Director:

Lionel Jeffries

Writers:

Antonia Barber (novel)
Lionel Jeffries (writer)

Release Date:

1974 (USA)

Genre:

Family | Mystery | Fantasy

Tagline:

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

Plot:

A mysterious, very old solicitor Mr. Blunden visits Mrs. Allen and her young children in her squalid...

Plot Keywords:

Ghost | Abbreviation In Title | Haunted House | Rescue | Fire

Cast

Laurence Naismith	...	Mr. Blunden
Lynne Frederick	...	Lucy Allen
Garry Miller	...	Jamie Allen
Rosalyn Landor	...	Sara Latimer
Marc Granger	...	Georgie Latimer
Diana Dors	...	Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper
Dorothy Alison	...	Mrs. Allen
James Villiers	...	Uncle Bertie
Madeline Smith	...	Bella
David Lodge	...	Mr. Wickens
Stuart Lock	...	Thomas
Deddie Davies	...	Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant
Graham Crowden	...	Mr. Clutterbug
Erik Chitty	...	Mr. Claverton
Reg Lye	...	Sexton

Runtime:

99 min

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color (Eastmancolor)

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Certification:

UK:U | USA:G | Iceland:12

Filming Locations:

Heatherden Hall, Pinewood Studios, Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire, England, UK

Company:

Hemdale Film

Trivia:

The last cinema feature film of Laurence Naismith.

Quotes:

Lucy Allen: Poor books. How sad.

Movie Connections:

Referenced in "Public Eye: Egg & Cress Sandwiches (#6.12)" (1973)

This is a Wonderful Fantasy Movie that the Entire Family can Enjoy!!

This movie is a classic fantasy film about two children who travel back in time to save the lives of two children who died in a fire 100 years ago. Two siblings, Lucy and Jamie, get the shock of their lives when they encounter the ghosts of two children in the garden of the home there mother is overseeing. Sara and Georgie are two young ghosts that died in a fire at the house nearly 100 years ago. They desperately need help and cannot find it in their own time so they find a recipe that enables them to travel back in time. They ask Lucy and Jamie to make the potion in order to travel to their time to help save their lives. This movie is also nice because it has an interesting plot twist at the end and it is also one of the few movies in which you get to see Diana Dors act instead of just look nice. It is a thrilling movie but out of print and hard to find. I highly recommend it.