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The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.
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User Score24 ratings
TMDB 6.616+19721h 35mEnglish
FamilyFantasy

Synopsis

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?

Director
Lionel JeffriesFrom TMDB credits
Studio
Hemisphere Productions2 production companies
Release
December 7, 1972Released
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Top Cast

8 of 18
Laurence Naismith
Laurence Naismith
Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden
Lynne Frederick
Lynne Frederick
Lucy Allen
Garry Miller
James "Jamie" Allen
Rosalyn Landor
Rosalyn Landor
Sara Catherine Latimer
Marc Granger
Georgie Richard Latimer
Diana Dors
Diana Dors
Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper
Dorothy Alison
Dorothy Alison
Mrs. Richard Allen
James Villiers
James Villiers
Uncle Bertie (Albert)

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CinemaSerf
Mar 27, 2022

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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