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The Amazing Mr. Blunden

1972 · 95 min

A gentle, eerie time-travel mystery that blends cosy nostalgia with genuine peril, leaving a warm, bittersweet afterglow.

Tagline
Follow him into fun, fantasy & fright -- he's a time-traveling ghost who's often out of sight.
Overview
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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How it feels

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Tone
  • eeriestrength 2 of 3
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • whimsicalstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • family
  • death
  • redemption
  • fate
  • friendship
Places
  • single country house
  • small town
  • countryside
Era
period
Audience
family
Form
  • twist ending
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence mild
  • Sex none
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Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action2
Horror3
Humour3
Realism3
Romance1
Tension5
Darkness4
Complexity4
Emotional weight6

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Details

Genres
family, fantasy
Directed by
Lionel Jeffries
Written by
Lionel Jeffries
Starring
Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger, Diana Dors, Dorothy Alison, James Villiers
Music
Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography
Gerry Fisher
Runtime
95 min
Country
United Kingdom
Languages
English

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