Rent Children's Film Foundation: Bumper Box: Vol.6 (1980)
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8h 6min
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Is it raining again? Cheer up, chum, there's no shortage of sunshine on this sixth splendid CFF Bumper Box. You'll soon turn that frown upside down once you've restored yourself with the warming wonders that await you on this latest collection of summer-holiday smashers from that Great British 20th-century filmmaking phenomenon: the Children's Film Foundation. Herewith you'll find nine further fantastic vintage feature-length adventures from every decade of its existence, guaranteed to blow the blues away, alongside a whole host of invigorating extras. So put away that brolly! Wherever you may roam, be it land or sea a-foam, CFF will see you happily home! Chase 1950s egg thieves across the Channel Islands with a marching band in 'Mystery on Bird Island', marvel at a magic marble that makes your toys massive in 'One Wish Too Many', then foil a felonious feline-fancier with Francesca 'Dune' Annis and Jeremy 'The Empire Strikes Back' Bulloch in 'The Cat Gang'! See off the Army's regimental rotters who want to steal your beach (but fetch them back to defuse an unexploded bomb) in 'Rockets in the Dunes', take a colourful 1960s plunge into the deep blue sea diving off the Maltese coast with Susan 'Up the Junction' George, then join rock'n'roller Joe Brown, Wilfrid 'Steptoe and Son' Brambell and Irene 'The Italian Job' Handl on the trail of bashful big cat Simba in 'Lionheart'! Park up your Chopper and slip off your cycle clips before you meet the sentient steam traction engine on a mission to flatten the vicar's village fete vegetable stall in the 1970s classic 'Smokey Joe's Revenge', evade malevolent marauder Michael 'Boon' Elphick after you get all washed up on 'Black Island', then - edging into the electric 1980s - confound an escaped convict simply by doing some adding up on a state-of-the-art pocket calculator in 'Danger on Dartmoor'!
Also: an abundance of adorable add-ons. Saddle up for smartly turned out 1940s equine adventures with 'Forest Pony'! Witness children braving the world outdoors without the aid of a single weblink in 'Our Magazine No 6'! Carry on laughing with Peter Butterworth, 'The Chiffy Kids' and 'The Magnificent Six' and 1/2! Plus an all-new mini-doc, A CFF Production: Johnny on the Run, revisiting another much-heralded Foundation classic!- 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, Michael Forlong
- Producers:
- Anthony Gilkison, Basil Wright, Arthur Villesid, Ralph May, Lionel Hoare, Ronald Spencer, Michael Barnes, Michael Forlong
- 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, Michael Forlong, Alexander Fullerton
- 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
