The Amazing Mr. Blunden

Dec 7, 1972

1h 35m

★ 6.5

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

Overview

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?

Genres

Family

Fantasy

Production Companies

Hemisphere Productions

Hemdale

The Amazing Mr. Blunden Trailers

Cast

Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden

Laurence Naismith

Lucy Allen

Lynne Frederick

James "Jamie" Allen

Garry Miller

Sara Catherine Latimer

Rosalyn Landor

Georgie Richard Latimer

Marc Granger

Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper

Diana Dors

Mrs. Richard Allen

Dorothy Alison

Uncle Bertie (Albert)

James Villiers

Bella (Arabella)

Madeline Smith

Mr. Wickens

David Lodge

Thomas Mortimer

Stuart Lock

Meakin, Mrs. Wickens' Servant

Deddie Davies

Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re going to be murdered by the wicked Mr and Mrs Wickens. And Lucy and Jamie’s strange visitor seems to be the key to it all. With his help, they must travel back to 1821 to save Sara and Georgie and redeem their remorseful new friend – The Amazing Mr Blunden.

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