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The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1974)
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?
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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?
Rating:G
Genre:Family, Fantasy
Written By:Lionel Jeffries
In Theaters:1/1/1974
Box Office:
Runtime:95 minutes
Studio:Hemisphere Productions, Hemdale
Cast
Lionel Jeffries
Director
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
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