Rent Children's Film Foundation: Bumper Box: Vol.6 (1980)
3.1 of 5 from 45 ratings
8h 24min
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- Synopsis:
"Children's Film Foundation: Bumper Box: Volume 6" offers up another glorious opportunity for a warm wallow in nostalgia, showcasing nine more of the best feature-length Saturday Morning Pictures ever made, from the UK's best-loved, longest running purveyor of quality cinematic entertainment for kids. You'll find escapist fun and vintage thrills galore for all the family in this latest selection of terrific time-capsules and corking old-school classics, unleashed at last from the vaults of the BFI National Archive - from the far-away 1940s, right up to the electric 1980s, alongside a sumptuous array of exciting retro extras and a brand-new documentary. As usual, there are well-known names galore, with films showcasing such famous screen faces as Francesca Annis, Jeremy Bulloch, Susan George, Joe Brown, Wilfrid Brambell, Irene Handl, Michael Elphick, Gareth Thomas, Patricia Hayes - on a set which offers something for everyone.
The Films:
- Mystery on Bird Island (1954)
- One Wish Too Many (1956)
- The Cat Gang (1958)
- Rockets in the Dunes (1960)
- Davey Jones' Locker (1965)
- Lionheart (1968)
- Smokey Joe's Revenge (1974)
- Black Island (1978)
- Danger on Dartmoor (1980)- Actors:
- Mavis Sage, Vernon Morris, Jennifer Beech, Nick Edmett, Roddy Hughes, Alexander Gauge, John Drake, Howard Connell, Peter Arne, Alan Mackay, Anthony Richmond, Rosalind Gourgey, John Pike, Terry Cooke, Arthur Howard, Gladys Young, Sam Costa, Frank Hayden, Bay White, Paddy Joyce
- Directors:
- John Haggarty, John Durst, Darrell Catling, William C. Hammond, Frederic Goode, Ronald Spencer, Ben Bolt, David Eady
- Producers:
- Anthony Gilkison, Basil Wright, Arthur Villesid, Ralph May, Lionel Hoare, Ronald Spencer, Michael Barnes
- Writers:
- Mary Cathcart Borer, Mary Dunn, John Haggarty, John Eldridge, Norah Pulling, George Evans, Louis Lamplugh, Gerard Bryant, Wallace Bosco, Patricia Latham, William Humble, Peter Smith, Peter Van Praagh, Audrey Erskine-Lindop, Dudley Leslie
- Aka:
- Mystery on Bird Island / One Wish Too Many / The Cat Gang / Rockets in the Dunes / Davey Jones' Locker / Lionheart / Smokey Joe's Revenge / Black Island / Danger on Dartmoor
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Children & Family, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Thrillers, Kids’ TV
