Even the film crew didn't know how old I was and treated me as a kid, which was frustrating. They'd ask Jenny how she thought a take had gone, even though she was three years younger than me, and they'd give me sweets. But actually Jenny was as motherly as the character she played and looked after me. I've always had a childish side. Bernard Cribbins liked to go fishing, and I'd creep up on him and say, "Boo!
They put us all in a remote hotel near Haworth in north Yorkshire so we couldn't stray into any nightclubs. One evening I got fed up and dragged a reluctant Jenny along for a night out in Leeds. We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
The scariest scene to shoot was the landslide, which took a whole day to set up. There were explosives hidden in the trees, and I was petrified. After the film was released, Lionel rang to congratulate me on being nominated for a Bafta. Why you can trust Sky News. More on West Yorkshire. Related Topics: West Yorkshire. Related Topics West Yorkshire. I was sworn to secrecy. One night, a frustrated Thomsett fled with Agutter to a nightclub in Leeds where a bikini-clad woman danced inside a cage.
We were caught red-handed. Agutter, who had already filmed Walkabout, thinks that working at such a young age probably arrested her development. I hadn't really been through any great emotional changes. When I went to America in my 20s there was a delayed adolescence, which Hollywood supports in an awful lot of people.
She eventually returned to Britain, married and became a mother. Which production does she prefer? One is attached to my childhood and one is attached to my being a mother.
Storyline Edit. The film opens in a happy, comfortable upper middle-class home in Edwardian London. One night in , the three children see their father usher two strangers into his study. After an argument he leaves with them and does not return.
They and their mother fall on hard times and eventually move to a cottage in the country. Yet they keep their spirits up and find ways to help others. Fascinated by the nearby railway, they wave to the passengers faithfully every day, and their vigilance and courage prevent an accident. Their kindness makes friends of some important people who can help solve the mystery of their missing father.
The Railway, the Children. Did you know Edit. Trivia Sally Thomsett was 20 when she was cast as year-old Phyllis. Her contract forbade her to reveal her true age during the making of the film and she was not allowed to be seen smoking, drinking, going out with her boyfriend or driving the sports cars that were her passion.
Even the film crew did not know her true age. Goofs As the engine approaches Bobbie in the 'landslide sequence' and comes to a halt, drifting steam is seen coming down from the sky and entering its funnel, indicating the shot is actually reversed footage of the train backing away from Bobbie so as to not endanger the actress by attempting a precision stop inches away from her.
Quotes Mrs. Crazy credits As the end credit captions are displayed the shot tracks towards a steam locomotive, in front of which are gathered the principal cast. They are surrounded by extras portraying local townspeople, who wave and say goodbye to the audience. All the while, Jenny Agutter is preoccupied with writing something on a slate. As the camera reaches her, she holds it up to display the words "The End".
User reviews 55 Review. Top review. Romanticised nostalgia for the days of steam. A quarter of a century later as a father of a small boy my interest has been revived and I find myself becoming something of a railway child once more.
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