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The Magnet [1950]
Price: £1.99
RRP: £9.99
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Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5024165144671
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 1998-07-06
Title : The Magnet [1950]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Universal, suitable for all
Format : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1950-10
Running time : 74
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1951-02-26
Number of discs : 1
RRP: £9.99
Average customer rating:
Binding : VHS Tape
EAN : 5024165144671
Label : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Release date : 1998-07-06
Title : The Magnet [1950]
Actor : Array
Audience rating : Universal, suitable for all
Format : Array
Number of items : 1
Original release date : 1950-10
Running time : 74
Studio : Warner Home Video
Theatrical releaseDate : 1951-02-26
Number of discs : 1
Customer reviews
review by: YNWA date: 2008-05-15 rating:
Fascinating 1950s Liverpool views
A lovely gentle film, but if nothing else, buy it to see how the great city of Liverpool looked in the early 1950s. I was mesmerised! Highly recommended.
review by: date: 2006-01-06 rating:
Great film - just like all the Ealing comedies!
What a charming film, and such great child actors too. This is a joy to watch from start to finish.
review by: joeskade date: 2003-02-27 rating:
An Ealing Potboiler
I suppose the main interest of this film now is the childhood appearance of James Fox as our accidental hero, and a good job he makes too. A middle-class boy from Birkenhead cheats another boy out of a magnet and is plagued with guilt. The film follows the adventures of the boy and also of the magnet.
T.E.B Clarke had already written the lovely 'Hue and Cry' and the classic 'Passport To Pimlico' when he penned this little oddity. This was a somewhat lower quality effort, the satire (this time on Psychologists through the person of the insufferable father) is more heavyhanded, though there are some nice touches. The direction is more ponderous than in the earlier films and the childs eye view becomes a little oppressive. Still it remains watchable.
One for the true Ealing enthusiast. But don't expect too much.
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