The Amazing Mr. Blunden

The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

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

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?

Date of release
1972-12-07
TMDB
6.6 / 10 (24)
Runtime
1h 35m
Genres
Family, Fantasy
Director
Lionel Jeffries

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Based on: The Ghosts

The Amazing Mr. Blunden is a 1972 British family mystery film involving ghosts directed by Lionel Jeffries. It was written by Jeffries and Antonia Barber based on Barber's 1969 novel The Ghosts. It stars Laurence Naismith, Lynne Frederick, Garry Miller, Rosalyn Landor, Marc Granger, Diana Dors, Madeline Smith, and James Villiers.

Production

Lionel Jeffries originally promised Sally Thomsett the role of Lucy. She had been cast in the film but shortly before production began she was forced to withdraw from the film due to personal problems that she was dealing with at the time and Lynne Frederick replaced her.

Rosalyn Landor and Lynne Frederick had both just come off of auditioning and being turned down for the role of Alice in Alice’s Adventures In Wonderland (1972) before being cast in this film. Diana Dors had a key support role.

Spike Milligan, Gert Fröbe, Gene Wilder, David Niven, Michael Gough, David Tomlinson, Peter Cushing, Christopher Lee, Donald Pleasence and Robert Helpmann were all considered for the role of Mr. Blunden.

Editor Teddy Darvas said "that was done at Pinewood and it was a small budget film. Again the casting was excellent... It's a very, very nice ghost story which was a very big success."

The film was shot at Pinewood Studios in June and July 1972, with location filming around the village and church at Hedgerley, Buckinghamshire. The fire-ravaged derelict stately home was in fact Heatherden Hall, on the estate of which the studios are located and which at that time served as administration offices for the production facilities.

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