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The Railway Children is a British film of genre Drama directed by Lionel Jeffries released in USA on 28 october 1971 with Jenny Agutter
The Railway Children (1970)
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Add to a movie listThe Railway Children is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel of the same name by E. Nesbit. The film was directed by Lionel Jeffries, and stars Dinah Sheridan, Jenny Agutter (who had earlier featured in the successful BBC's 1968 dramatisation of the novel), Sally Thomsett and Bernard Cribbins in leading roles. The film was released to cinemas in the United Kingdom on 21 December 1970.
The film rights were bought by Lionel Jeffries. It was his directorial debut, and he was also responsible for writing the screenplay for the film. The Railway Children turned out to be a critical success, both at the time of its release and in later years.
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The story follows the adventures of the Waterbury children, who are forced to move with their mother (Dinah Sheridan) from a luxurious Edwardian villa in the London suburbs to "Three Chimneys", a house near the fictional 'Great Northern and Southern Railway' in Yorkshire, as their father (Iain Cuthbertson), who works at the Foreign Office, has been imprisoned as a result of being wrongly accused of selling state secrets to the Russians.Actors
Jenny Agutter
(Roberta 'Bobbie' Waterbury)
Gary Warren
(Peter Waterbury)
Sally Thomsett
(Phyllis Waterbury)
Dinah Sheridan
(Mrs. Waterbury)
Bernard Cribbins
(Albert Perks)
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