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Whistle Down The Wind [DVD] [1961]

DVD ~ Alan Bates
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  • Actors: Alan Bates, Bernard Lee, Hayley Mills, Norman Bird, Elsie Wagstaff
  • Directors: Bryan Forbes
  • Writers: Keith Waterhouse, Mary Hayley Bell, Willis Hall
  • Producers: Jack Rix, Richard Attenborough
  • Format: Anamorphic, Black & White, PAL, Special Edition
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: PG
  • Studio: ITV DVD
  • DVD Release Date: 17 May 2004
  • Run Time: 95 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0001E5TL0
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,078 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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When a young girl finds an injured man hiding in her father's barn, she asks who he is. Startled by the girl, he exclaims "Jesus Christ!" and falls into an exhausted stupor. His striking resemblance to a picture postcard of Jesus confirms to her and her siblings that it really is Him. The word spreads about "a certain person" amongst the children of the Lancashire village, and secret parcels of food and gifts are brought to nourish and reassure Him. The grown-ups ultimately find out about the terrible confusion the children feel when the Man, who is brought out by the police, is touchingly palpable. An angelic Alan Bates enigmatically plays the Man, who is in fact an escaped prisoner; Hayley Mills plays the delightful eldest child Kathy. Her little brother and sister are played by Diane Holgate, and a particularly loveable and cheeky Alan Barnes, who declares over breakfast that he's eaten "198 eggs since last Easter." This enchanting allegory, written by Mills' mother Mary Hayley Bell, is charming and amusing enough to avoid being sentimental, and has deservedly become a classic.

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26 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Blessed!, 29 Jun 2002
This review is from: Whistle Down The Wind [VHS] [1961] (VHS Tape)
What an absolutely lovely movie. Three children, two sisters and their brother, who live in a farm, discover a man one day hiding in their barn. They ask who he is, and the man, shocked, utters the exclamation, "Jesus Christ". From then on, the children think the man is Jesus.
The film follows a charming course, which will warm your heart, and at moment, break your heart too. Whistle Down The Wind is a portrait of platonic love between strangers, and the absolute trust children are willing to give adults who, they believe, deserve it.
Not a film to be missed - perfect for watching on a grey, rainy afternoon when there is nothing else to do...and simply poignant.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Childhood memories, 8 Nov 2005
By P. Shawyer "Pat Shawyer" (Essex UK) - See all my reviews
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Being a child of the 50's - 60's, one film, to me, epitomises this era, Whistle down the wind. The styles, and the innocence of the children catches everything of my childhood. Its a wonderful film, one that I have watched many times.
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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars From the Perspective of an 'Extra' - 45 Years On, 28 Sep 2006
By Dr. J. Stephen Nightingale "extra" (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews
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I was one of the schoolchildren who ran on in the closing minutes of the film, to the farm at the foot of Worsaw Hill in Lancashire. There were several takes of this scene, and we alternately ran into the farmyard from along the stream in front, and down a rather steep part of the hill and into the farmyard. Many of the children chosen for disciple parts and principal parts were from Chatburn Primary School. The entire front row in the final gate scene were also Chatburn schoolkids. We were paid ten shillings as extras for each day's shooting. I remember earlier in the year - probably 1960 - Bryan Forbes and Dickie Attenborough came round to the school, and we were all lined up against a wall while they were doing cast selections.

Of course the film was a big hit locally when it premiered (at the Odeon in Burnley). It still is, as most people in the surrounding villages are related to someone who was in it.

It was a long time before I was able to develop a proper adult opinion of 'Whistle'. What strikes me now is how opinion in various reviews I have seen, and discussed, splits along the lines of the division of opinion among the protagonists. Having once 'identified' The Man as Jesus, even in spite of ("adult") evidence to the contrary, Kathy and Nan, and apparently also the disciples, persist in believing that he was Jesus and is being persecuted all over again. Charlie is the lone dissenter, who interprets the evidence of his senses and concludes "It's not Jesus. It's just a fella". So the overall flavour of the film from an analytical perspective is that in the matter of religious faith, presentation of contrary facts is completely irrelevant to the persistence of the belief. A more cynical twist on this: in so far as only children were party to the belief, while adults only saw a dangerous criminal, it suggests that irrational belief systems require a childlike worldview. This is doubly damning for Faith versus Facts.

And yet, People Still Believe.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars whistle down the wind
I enjoyed the film the first time I saw it when the film came out. It was such a lovely story of three innocent children living on a farm in Lancashire not far from where I live... Read more
Published 9 days ago by Barbarella

5.0 out of 5 stars A truly beautiful Picture!

A truly lovely film, beautifully shot in black and white, and definitely an all time British classic from the early 60s. Read more
Published 11 months ago by FAMOUS NAME

5.0 out of 5 stars a true northern childhood
i first watched this film when i was about ten years old, hayley mills made the best films about childhood, she was a fantastic child star, no wonder walt disney spotted her and... Read more
Published 17 months ago by magic

5.0 out of 5 stars An all time favourite
I remember watching this film one sunday afternoon when I was about 10 years old and it stuck in my mind ever since, thus becoming my all time favourite film. Read more
Published 18 months ago by Mrs. C. Longley

5.0 out of 5 stars My mum was in this film!
She was one of the extras who ran on in the final scenes.
this is a wonderful, charming, gentle film. I wish I could let my kids run around like Cathy et al. Read more
Published 22 months ago by Saffron

5.0 out of 5 stars Poignant Memories
My late husband and myself watched this film a few times, first at the cinema as young marrieds and later on TV. Read more
Published 24 months ago by Technical and Artistic

4.0 out of 5 stars A moving film about the age of innocence
I know I am not alone in loving films like this one which takes us back to times when families had real values. Read more
Published on 23 Jun 2007 by Mr. B. Vernon

4.0 out of 5 stars A Wind That Blows Well
Forbes' well-loved film performs a delicate balancing act between symbolism and naturalism, and does so with sensitivity and humour. Read more
Published on 22 Sep 2005 by Richard Bowden

5.0 out of 5 stars I hope they don't "remake" this movie...
Hollywood has a way of remaking movies (or TV shows) and just ruining the story. I doubt that any child actress could play the role of Cathy like Hayley Mills. Read more
Published on 27 May 2005

5.0 out of 5 stars That's not Jesus! That's a fella!
A marvellous if naive work from Brian Forbes, with an excellent score by one of our finest film composers, Malcolm Arnold. This is a story about children, and about adults. Read more
Published on 5 Jun 2001

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