Delightful Movie
Added 7/1/2009
I have been looking for a copy of this delightful movie for years and I'm glad to have found it. It's as good as I remember. Hoping to see it on DVD sometime soon. It's a great one to show your kids---or grandkid, too.
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Will we ever see a Region 1 release?
Added 8/12/2006
"Whistle Down the Wind" is IMHO one of Hayley Mills' finest film interpretations from her vast film catalogue. Hayley provides a scintillating performance in a character of youthful innocence in a virtuous and somewhat obscure film. Will we ever be treated to this exemplary cinematic treasure in Region 1 North America?
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Thought-provoking minor classic of British cinema
Added 10/12/2003
Stylistically, Whistle Down the Wind treads the centre between the sentimentalism of postwar British cinema and the stark realism of the sixties. The bleak Lancashire countryside is photographed with great ambience by Arthur Ibbetson (The Railway Children, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).The story has three children discovering "Jesus" in their barn, and follows their attempts to keep his presence a secret from the adults. Underneath the events of the film is a journey of faith and doubt and puzzlement. There is a quite deliberate ambiguity, I think, that left me wondering whether the film was cynical or positive about the virtues of childlike faith. The children turn in believable performances, including Hayley Mills, whose presence works surprisingly well, despite my suspicion that her star persona might add a touch of artifice to the production. The rest of the child cast are made up of real Lancastrian schoolchildren, so the thick northern accents and quaint idioms are all quite genuine.
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An arty, thought-provoking UK cult classic
Added 5/7/2003
Alan Bates plays opposite a teenage Hayley Mills in this odd parable about a band of rural English children who mistake a fugitive criminal for the second coming of Jesus Christ. The indeterminate nature of the ending, which is open to subjective interpretations, makes this a difficult film to pronounce judgement on: non-Christians may not totally get the theological implications, but the dynamic between the aloof, dismissive adult villagers and the flock of children who readily revere the dishelvelled, dangerous Bates is an interesting precursor for the 'Sixties generation gap that was to come. Beautiful B&W cinematography, and excellent performances by all the child actors, who, amazingly, act like real kids do: petulant, competitive, and able to believe the fantastic.
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The Best Ever
Added 8/12/2001
This film is excellant. It's quite funny but it's sad as well. It's about three children and one day they find a man in their barn. The man is actually an escaped murderer but they don't know that. When he see's them he shouts out Jesus Christ and they think he's Jesus. I went to the theatre to see it with my parents and my brother. It was brillant.
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Delightful Movie
Added 7/1/2009
I have been looking for a copy of this delightful movie for years and I'm glad to have found it. It's as good as I remember. Hoping to see it on DVD sometime soon. It's a great one to show your kids---or grandkid, too.
0 out of 0 people found this helpful.
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Will we ever see a Region 1 release?
Added 8/12/2006
"Whistle Down the Wind" is IMHO one of Hayley Mills' finest film interpretations from her vast film catalogue. Hayley provides a scintillating performance in a character of youthful innocence in a virtuous and somewhat obscure film. Will we ever be treated to this exemplary cinematic treasure in Region 1 North America?
4 out of 5 people found this helpful.
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Thought-provoking minor classic of British cinema
Added 10/12/2003
Stylistically, Whistle Down the Wind treads the centre between the sentimentalism of postwar British cinema and the stark realism of the sixties. The bleak Lancashire countryside is photographed with great ambience by Arthur Ibbetson (The Railway Children, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory).The story has three children discovering "Jesus" in their barn, and follows their attempts to keep his presence a secret from the adults. Underneath the events of the film is a journey of faith and doubt and puzzlement. There is a quite deliberate ambiguity, I think, that left me wondering whether the film was cynical or positive about the virtues of childlike faith. The children turn in believable performances, including Hayley Mills, whose presence works surprisingly well, despite my suspicion that her star persona might add a touch of artifice to the production. The rest of the child cast are made up of real Lancastrian schoolchildren, so the thick northern accents and quaint idioms are all quite genuine.
9 out of 11 people found this helpful.
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