The Railway Children (1968) [DVD]

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Another option in that section was “It was showing in 3D”. Well, The Railway Children Return is certainly NOT in 3D, and doesn’t need to be.

Lily is a bit of a tomboy type, who gives as good as she gets, while when Ted is asked to introduce himself to Annie, he chirps, “Adolf!”, so there’s a fair bit of humour where it counts. Well, there are three plot points to conclude at the end of the new film. I won’t go into detail about them, obviously, but when you have a film that’s just a too-short 95 minutes end-to-end, you could have extended this another 15-20 minutes by showing each of these stories panning out, but no… Mitchinson, James, ed. (12 May 2021). "Lights, cameras, Oakworth: shots of the new Railway Children". The Yorkshire Post. p.7. ISSN 0963-1496. a b Hyde, Nathan (7 May 2021). "Agutter to return in sequel to Railway Children". The Yorkshire Post. p.3. ISSN 0963-1496.

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Now, will we get another sequel in another 52 years, making that 2074? I doubt I’ll be around to see it. Not in this life, anyway. Ramachandran, Naman (6 May 2021). " 'The Railway Children,' All-Time U.K. Children's Classic, Gets Sequel From Studiocanal". Variety . Retrieved 7 May 2021. Jenny Agutter to reprise Railway Children role in film sequel". BBC News. 6 May 2021 . Retrieved 7 May 2021.

However, you might not know Ms Agutter has been in not two Railway Children ventures, but FOUR! The other two are the 1968 BBC series where she effectively played the same character, but as Roberta Faraday, and in 2000, as another version of the original story, for BBC’s Masterpiece Theatre, in the role of Mother. If you haven’t seen the original movie, then it is on BBC iPlayer for four weeks from today, but I would still have liked to have seen it on the big screen, and at a decent time of day. What a shame.

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Kenigsberg, Ben (8 September 2022). "159 Films, for Every Taste, Coming This Fall". The New York Times– via NYTimes.com.