You won't be disappointed!

It's entirely possible that sending the audience out feeling lousy was intentional

A film with more than the usual spoiler issues. Talking about it in any detail feels akin to handing you a gift-wrapped present and saying, "I hope you like it -- It's a thriller about a diabolical secret experiment."

An old-fashioned movie made with new-fashioned finesse.

A fondly remembered film from my youth and one I've re-visited more than once since, it still charms me today. A delightful and thrilling fantasy, it plays almost as well to adults as to its no doubt target audience of children.The Dickensian-styled story is well-wrought with a nice blend of mystery, enchantment and adventure throughout. Sympathetically and winningly directed by British character actor Lionel Jeffries who gives himself a brief expository scene too, it's a perfect example of family entertainment.All the principal characters are well-played, especially Laurence Naismith as the twinkle eyed title character, out to right wrongs from a hundred years before and Diana Dors as an over-the-top scheming harridan figure whose plans the amazing Mr B thwarts with the help of two young children from the future. All the child-actors act very well and for the most part avoid the usual wooden-ness in similar portrayals.I won't give away any of the ingenious plot but it all resolves and revolves around a race to save a young heir and his sister from being murdered in a deliberately-set house fire in a plot devised by Dors and acted upon by her simpleton husband. In fact the film just tails off a little after its fiery climax, although it redeems itself with a happy ending and an unusual but warm-hearted end-credit sequence wholly in keeping with what has gone before. There's a fine understated score by Elmer Berstein too.It probably helps that this film evokes my happy child-hood but watching it again forty years on, I'm pleased to say I enjoyed it just as much as I did in a Glasgow flea-pit in 1973.

Lionel Jeffries, while being a character actor in his primary years, proved himself a great director as well with films such as the delightful Railway Children and this gem. The Amazing Mr Blunden really is a very overlooked period ghost story, and while I know lots of people who love it, I honestly think it is one of Jeffries's more overlooked films. While charming in places, it offers all the right chills and thrills. The period detail is absolutely splendid, the house itself was majestic and the costumes were beautiful. The story may be a little strange in places, when I first saw this film I wasn't so sure about the ending, but it is well told and moves along briskly. The direction is tight, the editing is crisp, the script is intelligent and literate and the pace is assured. The music score was also great, beautiful yet eerie. The performances were spot on, while I was most impressed with all the children, the standouts were really in the adults. James Villiers is good as the uncle, while Laurence Naismith gives a ripe and charming performance in the title role. The best performance and probably the most memorable thing of the film was Dianna Dors as Mrs Wickens the Housekeeper, warts and all she is every child's worst nightmare, she terrified me when I was a kid and still gives me the shivers. In conclusion, wonderful overlooked film. 10/10 Bethany Cox

This movie is a classic fantasy film about two children who travel back in time to save the lives of two children who died in a fire 100 years ago. Two siblings, Lucy and Jamie, get the shock of their lives when they encounter the ghosts of two children in the garden of the home there mother is overseeing. Sara and Georgie are two young ghosts that died in a fire at the house nearly 100 years ago. They desperately need help and cannot find it in their own time so they find a recipe that enables them to travel back in time. They ask Lucy and Jamie to make the potion in order to travel to their time to help save their lives. This movie is also nice because it has an interesting plot twist at the end and it is also one of the few movies in which you get to see Diana Dors act instead of just look nice. It is a thrilling movie but out of print and hard to find. I highly recommend it.

Saw this film when I was a child, and it still gives me the same lil shudders and I STILL giggle in the right places... its a good old story with the sweetest ending EVER.It really encapsulates the film genre of the 1970's and the old way of telling ghost stories which seems to have been lost in modern films.This film is good for the whole family and actually deals with death and the afterlife in a manner that makes you talk about it afterwards