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A FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOKTHE FEATURE PRESENTATION
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
Keep the feeling.
SIMILAR PICKS / A PERSONAL CONNECTION
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Why this pick
Like The Amazing Mr Blunden, it gives children agency within an old-country-house mystery, balancing spooky discoveries, period-tinged atmosphere and a fundamentally family-friendly sense of adventure.
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Why this pick
Its Edwardian estate, bereaved children and gradual awakening of hidden places echo Blunden’s melancholy fairy-tale warmth, with young characters finding hope and purpose in a forbidding old home.
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Why this pick
A gently supernatural English manor-house tale with children confronting a ghostly past, offering the same cosy Victorian/Edwardian flavour, mild chills and compassionate family-fantasy spirit.
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Why this pick
This pairs a child’s-eye supernatural adventure with old-world secrets and an unlikely friendship, retaining Blunden’s mix of peril, playfulness and sincere concern for endangered children.
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Why this pick
A newly displaced family discovers that their decaying inherited house conceals another world; it has Blunden’s secretive-property setting, sibling teamwork and brisk magical danger.
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01 / THE STORY
The film begins in 1918, where a First World War widow, Mrs. Allen (Dorothy Alison) and her children, Lucy (Lynne Frederick), Jamie (Garry Miller) and baby Benjamin are reduced to living in a squalid, Camden Town Apartment. Just before Christmas, a mysterious old man, Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden (Laurence Naismith) visits the family, introducing himself as a representative of a firm of solicitors. The family are told there is an opportunity to become the caretakers of a derelict country mansion in the Home Counties named Langley Park, which was gutted by fire years before, and is now in the charge of the solicitors. Mrs. Allen takes the post despite rumours that the house is haunted, her instructions to care for the property until such time as the heirs to the estate can be traced. The air of mystery deepens when the children see a portrait at the solicitors office of a man they believe to be Mr Blunden. The solicitor confirms this, but reveals that the portrait is of a man called Mr Blunden, who has been dead for a hundred years, the present Mr. Blunden being his great-grandson.
02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
Sara Latimer
Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper
Mrs. Allen
Mr. Wickens
Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant
Thomas
Mr. Blunden
Lucy Allen
