The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.
1972 | 95m | English
Popularity: 2 (history)
| Director: | Lionel Jeffries |
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| Writer: | Lionel Jeffries, Antonia Barber |
| Staring: |
| 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? | |
| Release Date: | Dec 07, 1972 |
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| Director: | Lionel Jeffries |
| Writer: | Lionel Jeffries, Antonia Barber |
| Genres: | Family, Fantasy |
| Keywords | time travel, victorian england, ghost, old mansion |
| Production Companies | Hemdale, Hemisphere Productions |
| Box Office |
Revenue: $0
Budget: $0 |
| Updates |
Updated: Feb 03, 2025 Entered: Apr 26, 2024 |
| Name | Character |
|---|---|
| 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) |
| Madeline Smith | Bella (Arabella) |
| David Lodge | Mr. Wickens |
| Stuart Lock | Thomas Mortimer |
| Deddie Davies | Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant |
| Graham Crowden | Mr. Clutterbuck |
| Erik Chitty | Mr. Claverton |
| Reg Lye | Sexton |
| Paul Eddington | Vicar |
| Aimée Delamain | Elsie Tucker |
| Paddy Ward | Bus Driver |
| Name | Job |
|---|---|
| Gerry Fisher | Director of Photography |
| 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 |
| Lionel Jeffries | Director, Writer |
| Elmer Bernstein | Original Music Composer |
| Antonia Barber | Novel |
| Name | Title |
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| Barry Levinson | Producer |
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Popularity History
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| 2024 | 4 | 5 | 8 | 2 |
| 2024 | 5 | 7 | 16 | 3 |
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| 2025 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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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 i ... t'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.