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Product Information
Three motherless children believe that the murderer they found sheltering in a barn is really Christ. Based on a novel by Mary Hayley Bell.
Product Identifiers
EAN5037115059833
eBay Product ID (ePID)30484720
Product Key Features
ActorBernard Lee, Hayley Mills, Alan Bates
Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen
Film/TV TitleWhistle Down the Wind
DirectorBryan Forbes
Release Year2004
FormatDVD
LanguageEnglish
FeaturesBlack & White, Special Edition\Commentary by Hayley Mills\Trailer\Location Report, Widescreen, Closed Caption
GenreDrama, General
Run Time95 Mins
Additional Product Features
CertificatePG
Number of Discs1
Hearing ImpairedEnglish
ComposerMalcolm Arnold
Additional InformationWhen a young girl finds an injured man hiding in her father's barn, she asks who he is. "Jesus Christ!" he exclaims, startled by the girl and falls into an exhausted stupor. His striking resemblance to a picture postcard of Jesus, confirms to her and her brother and sister, that it is really Him. An angelic Alan Bates enigmatically plays the Man, in fact an escaped prisoner, and Hayley Mills plays the delightful eldest child Kathy. Her little brother and sister are played by Diane Holgate and a particularly hard-done-by but loveable and cheeky scamp Alan Barnes, who declares over breakfast that he's eaten "198 eggs since last Easter." But the word spreads about "a certain person" amongst the children of the Lancashire village and secret parcels of food and gifts are brought to nourish and reassure Him. A spellbound congregation inevitably appears at the gate. The grown-ups ultimately find out and the terrible confusion the children feel when the Man is brought out by the police is touchingly palpable. This enchanting allegory, written by Mills' mother Mary Hayley Bell, is charming and amusing enough to avoid being sentimental, and has deservedly become a classic.