The complex story is delicately crafted by director Jeffries (The Railway Children), this is never about scares, it’s a Dickensian type drama that features ghosts of children clutching in the future for help in the past. To those in the know, the nostalgic Brits like myself, it’s a lovely ghost/fantasy story about cross time redemption, resplendent in period flavours whilst operating from an intelligent script. It has one of the worst posters ever made for a movie, a poster that hints at some guy called Blunden being some superman type magician! Which when coupled with the title of the film really sets up a bum steer for new viewers.
There’s a reason for the two eldest Allen children, Lucy and Jamie, being there, their help is needed….by child ghosts from 1818! There’s a housekeeping opportunity at a derelict country mansion called Langley Park, the place having been gutted by a major fire previously. He offers them a way out of their impoverished surroundings in Camden Town. Allen and her three children are visited on Christmas Eve by mysterious old solicitor Mr. Music is scored by Elmer Bernstein and cinematography by Gerry Fisher.ġ918, London, England, and Mrs. It stars Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger, Laurence Naismith, Diana Dors, Madeline Smith and James Villiers. Blunden is directed by Lionel Jeffries who also adapts the screenplay from Antonia Barber’s novel The Ghosts. You can be a ghost, but you don’t have to be dead
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