The Amazing Mr. Blunden

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

95 mins | Family, Fantasy | Dec. 7, 1972

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?

The Amazing Mr. Blunden

95 mins | Family, Fantasy | Dec. 7, 1972

The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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?
IMDb rating 6.8
Producers Hemdale, Hemisphere Productions
Original title The Amazing Mr. Blunden
Directors Pamela Davies, Clive Reed, Michael Murray, Dusty Symonds, Lionel Jeffries
Writers Antonia Barber, Lionel Jeffries

Cast

Laurence Naismith

as Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden

Lynne Frederick

as Lucy Allen

Garry Miller

as James "Jamie" Allen

Rosalyn Landor

as Sara Catherine Latimer

Marc Granger

as Georgie Richard Latimer

Diana Dors

as Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper

Dorothy Alison

as Mrs. Richard Allen

James Villiers

as Uncle Bertie (Albert)

Madeline Smith

as Bella (Arabella)

David Lodge

as Mr. Wickens

Stuart Lock

as Thomas Mortimer

Deddie Davies

as Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant

Graham Crowden

as Mr. Clutterbuck

Erik Chitty

as Mr. Claverton

Reg Lye

as Sexton

Paul Eddington

as Vicar

Aimée Delamain

as Elsie Tucker

Paddy Ward

as Bus Driver