Director – Lionel Jeffries –1970 – UK – Cert. U – 109m ****1/2 After their father is arrested and the family plunged into poverty, three siblings and their mother leave London for the Yorkshire countryside – now on BBC iPlayer until around mid-August, also recently back out in cinemas for one day only on Sunday, […]
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The Railway Children
(1970)
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- Post date 2 July 2022
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