Last watched it on 6/2/11 and the fact that (Jenny Agutter had told us) Sally Thomsett at 20 was actually older than her and had to be told not to smoke or drive her car to work as it was undermining credibility. She plays the young sister very well, it has to be said. She was mainly on TV '64-78. Baxter is a rare '73 film also made by Jeffries, finally on DVD, which she's also in. It was only a couple of years before she was playing the village minx in Straw Dogs.
In GQ's Films that Make Men Cry, two people independently named the scene where Jenny reunites with Dad at railway station with words 'Daddy, my Daddy' (for the record, A.A. Gill and Simon Mills).
Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn. Put together with style and well written.
A beautiful, warm and sweet film that keeps going (loved Q's description to my mum: 'A warm hug of a film'). Lots of weeping in Edwardian (1905, to be precise, also when it was first published in serial form in The London Magazine ) classic.
Novel: E. Nesbit. A first will only set you back five hundred quid.
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