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The Amazing Mr. Blunden is a British film of genre Comedy directed by Lionel Jeffries released in USA on 1 january 1974 with Laurence Naismith

The Amazing Mr. Blunden (1972)

The Amazing Mr. Blunden
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Released in USA 1 january 1974
Length 1h39
Directed by
Genres Comedy,    Fantasy
Rating67% 3.3945853.3945853.3945853.3945853.394585

The Amazing Mr. Blunden is a 1972 family mystery film directed by Lionel Jeffries, based on the novel The Ghosts by Antonia Barber.

Synopsis

The film is set in 1918, in which a war widow Mrs. Allen (Dorothy Alison) and her three children, Lucy (Lynne Frederick), Jamie (Garry Miller) and baby Benjamin are reduced to living in a tiny, squalid, Camden Town flat. 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's instructions are to care for the property until such time as the heirs to the estate can be traced. In desperation, Mrs. Allen agrees to take up the post. There are rumours that the house is haunted, and as a result few locals venture up to the property.

Actors

Laurence Naismith

(Mr. Frederick Percival Blunden)
Lynne Frederick

(Lucy Allen)
Rosalyn Landor

(Sara Latimer)
Diana Dors

(Mrs. Wickens the Housekeeper)
Madeline Smith

(Bella (Arabella))
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