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    Child’s Play (1954)

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    A group of kids, led by brainbox Horatio Flynn (Christopher Beeny – later of Upstairs Downstairs fame – in an early role) in a small English village invent atomic popcorn, which they call “Bang Corn”.

    With the help of local shopkeeper Miss Goslett (Mona Washbourne), they market it with great success.

    In the meantime, scientists at the local Atomic Research establishment are perturbed that the children have beaten them to a significant breakthrough. The authorities are called in, but eventually, the process fails when the magic ingredient – a piece of volcanic rock from Krakatoa – runs out

    Child’s Play is a nostalgic trip to childhood in 1950s Britain, with long, hot summers and cricket on the village green.

    Horatio Flynn
    Christopher Beeny
    Mary Huxley
    Wendy Westcott
    Tom Chizzler
    Ian Smith
    Alice Nightingale
    Anneke Wills
    Ernest Rutherford Chappel
    Ernest Scott
    Han “Einstein” Blotz
    Patrick Wells
    Linda Chappel
    Elain Sykes
    Miss Emily Goslett
    Mona Washbourne
    PC Parker
    Peter Martyn
    Margery Chappel
    Dorothy Alison
    Lea Blotz
    Ingeborg Wells
    Carl Blotz
    Carl Jaffe
    Dr Nightingale
    Ballard Berkeley
    Mrs Chizzler
    Joan Young
    Police Superintendent
    Robert Raglan
    Mrs Briggs
    Mae Bacon
    Mrs Cannon
    Molly Raynor
    Policewoman
    Barbara Hicks
    Bob Crouch
    Jack May
    Sergeant Butler
    John Sharp
    Bill
    Peter Sallis
    Prof. Chappel
    Robert Lankesheer
    Director of Atomic Research
    Wyndham Goldie

    Director
    Margaret Thomson

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