Rent CFF Collection: Vol.3: Weird Adventures (1978)
3.1 of 5 from 19 ratings
2h 42min
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- Synopsis:
For over 30 years the Children's Film Foundation produced quality entertainment for young audiences, employing the cream of British filmmaking talent.
In The Monster of Highgate Ponds (1961) young David promises to guard a mysterious egg which his uncle brings back from Malaysia. But, when a baby monster hatches, mayhem ensues as David struggles to keep the unruly, but friendly, creature from falling into the clutches of two ruthless crooks. This enchanting tale features brilliant animated sequences by the legendary Halas and Batchelor, who also produced the film, and was directed by the celebrated Ealing director Alberto Cavalcanti (Went the Day Well?).The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) is the splendidly eccentric final collaboration from eminent filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. London schoolboy John Saunders turns a bright yellow after losing his pet mouse on a school trip. Is the mysterious colour change the result of an alien invasion or does the answer lie closer to home?
In A Hitch in Time (1978) Patrick Troughton (Doctor Who) plays time-hopping inventor Professor Adam Wagstaff. Discovered working on his time machine by two curious kids, Wagstaff decides to send them back through the ages. But, with malfunctions aplenty, will they be able to make it back? Featuring Jeff Rawle (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire) as 'Sniffy' Kemp, the teacher out to spoil everybody's fun, A Hitch in Time is a riotous re-telling of history.- Actors:
- Ronald Howard, Rachel Clay, Michael Wade, Mark Dightam, Robert Eddison, Helen Weir, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Theona McLellan, Terry Raven, Frederick Piper, Michael Balfour, Beryl Cooke, Esmond Knight, Patrick McAlinney, Laurence Carter, Lem Dobbs, Jo Maxwell Muller, Sorcha Cusack, Norman Mitchell
- Directors:
- Michael Powell, Alberto Cavalcanti, Jan Darnley-Smith
- Producers:
- John Halas, Emeric Pressburger, Harold Orton
- Voiced By:
- Roy Vicente
- Writers:
- Joy Batchelor, Mary Cathcart Borer, Emeric Pressburger, T.E.B. Clarke
- Aka:
- The Boy Who Turned Yellow / The Monster of Highgate Pond / Hitch In
- Studio:
- BFI Video
- Genres:
- Children & Family
- Collections:
- Pig Power: Animal Farm At 70, The Instant Expert's Guide to Powell and Pressburger, Top 10 Films of 1972
