The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.
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?
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Budget
—
Revenue
—
Release Date
December 7, 1972
Popularity
1
Director
Lionel Jeffries
Writer
Lionel Jeffries
Producer
Barry Levinson
Where to Watch
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)
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
Gallery
Reviews
CinemaSerf
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.
