A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.A little girl accidentally breaks her mother's favourite ornament and goes hop-picking to replace it.
León García
- Pat Reilly
- (as Leon Garcia)
Michael Maguire
- George McBain
- (as Micky Maguire)
Leonard Sharp
- China Mender
- (as Len Sharp)
Jane Asher
- McBain child
- (uncredited)
Edward Judd
- Bill
- (uncredited)
- Director
- Writers
- All cast & crew
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Did you know
- TriviaAll copies of the film were thought to be lost until an American film fan found a copy in a rubbish skip outside a Chicago television studio. He sold it to a UK enthusiast who showed it for the first time in fifty years on 8 March 2002 in the village hall at Goudhurst, Kent where it was originally filmed.
- ConnectionsReferenced in A Vandyke Production: Roger Proudlock and Strange Stories (2023)
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Excellent Children's Film Foundation Flick
When Mandy Miller breaks her mother's treasured china dog, she comes down with a brainstorm and runs away in hopes of a working vacation in Kent without telling anyone.
Having seen half a dozen of these Children's Film Foundation movies, I thought I knew what to expect: some great scenic photography and some heavy-handed moralizing about how good children should behave -- as decreed by people who no longer remembered being children, had no children themselves, or who believed the lies their children told them. What I found was a very well told story directed by John Guillerman with a frequently subjective camera that evoked very nicely the fears and simple moral narratives of children. If it gets heavy-handed at the end, with a melodramatic rescue from a burning mill, at least the evil-doers are ambiguously repentant -- they never expected anyone to get hurt, really, they were just having a bit of a laugh.
I doubt the moralisers will be very pleased with this movie. However, I was.
Having seen half a dozen of these Children's Film Foundation movies, I thought I knew what to expect: some great scenic photography and some heavy-handed moralizing about how good children should behave -- as decreed by people who no longer remembered being children, had no children themselves, or who believed the lies their children told them. What I found was a very well told story directed by John Guillerman with a frequently subjective camera that evoked very nicely the fears and simple moral narratives of children. If it gets heavy-handed at the end, with a melodramatic rescue from a burning mill, at least the evil-doers are ambiguously repentant -- they never expected anyone to get hurt, really, they were just having a bit of a laugh.
I doubt the moralisers will be very pleased with this movie. However, I was.
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- boblipton
- Dec 12, 2017
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- Country of origin
- Language
- Also known as
- Przygoda na plantacji
- Filming locations
- Nutley Windmill, Goudhurst, Kent, England, UK(windmill exterior)
- Production company
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- Runtime1 hour
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.37 : 1
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