Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971)

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Plot

Three children evacuated from London during World War II are forced to stay with an eccentric spinster. The children's initial fears disappear when they find out she is in fact a trainee witch.

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Cast

Angela LansburyMiss Price

David TomlinsonEmelius

Roddy McDowallMr. Jelk

Sam JaffeBookman

John EricsonCol. Heller

Bruce ForsythSwinburne

Brian G. HuttonCarrie

Roy SnartPaul

Ian WeighillCharlie

Tessie O'SheaMrs. Hobday

Arthur Gould-PorterCapt. Greer

Reginald OwenGen. Teagler

Bob HoltCodfish (voice)

Leon AltonSoldier at Portobello Road (uncredited)

Ennio SensiGerman Soldier (uncredited)

Writers and directors

Robert StevensonDirector

Other films by the same director

The Island at the Top of the World1974

Blackbeard's Ghost1968

Herbie - The Love Bug1968

Mary Poppins1964

The Absent Minded Professor1961

Claude BrasseurWriter

Marina SirtisWriter

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Gimly ★ 8.0/10

When I was younger, I used to spend a lot of my life alone in a studio with one of those tiny little 15cm TVs you wouldn't be caught dead with nowadays, plugged in to a VCR player, and exactly three m…18. Mar 2018

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CinemaSerf ★ 7.0/10

It's very much in the vein of "Mary Poppins" (1964) this, with a very similar style of live-action and animated sequences used to tell a slightly more menacing story. When three siblings arrive in a r…26. Nov 2022

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