A Ghost of a Chance

GHOST OF A CHANCE is a gentle Children's Film Foundation comedy worth watching for the cast alone, as they've coerced various British comedy actors to appear in this one. The story, in which three kids are trying to save a derelict mansion from being bulldozed so they can turn it into a youth club - and are aided in their quest by Patricia Hayes - is very slight and easily forgotten as the focus of the film and majority of the scenes are about workmen being thwarted by mischievous spirits. Jimmy Edwards and Graham Stark are the 17th century ghosts, Ronnie Barker is the boss, and Terry Scott and Bernard Cribbins play the hapless employees. Not bad!

The adult cast list was very impressive but the child actors and actresses were not all that great as they were a bit wooden, none of them seem to have continued to act after this film.

This film would have been very popular with children at the time but probably just for the very young now as tasted have changed a lot since 1967.

It's worth watching to see the wide selection of very well known adults that are in it and for a CFF film they must have been expensive to cast. An old car meets with a bit of a sticky end but it did appear to be a bit of a wreck and probably fit for the scrap yard only.

I am adding reviews for all films I've seen that so far lack one, at last I get the opportunity to recommend something, review follows... Made for the CFF (Childrens Film Foundation) by Fanfare, this is a short 50m comic tale of 3 kids and a couple of bickering ghosts who attempt to stop a property developer demolishing a house of historic interest, before the local council can list (preserve from tampering) the house; it's amusing, short and has many well known faces of British comedy, the director rather specialized in CFF adventures, good. As far as I know this is not available on commercial DVD, I obtained a collectors copy on DVD-r.

Tim