The box of delights [videorecording]
2024
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Devin Stanfield, Patrick Troughton and Robert Stephens star in this fantasy adventure based on the novel by John Masefield. When Kay Harker (Stanfield) meets Cole Hawlings (Troughton) at the railway station when he is returning home from boarding school for Christmas, he learns that Cole is being pursued by a magician called Abner Brown (Stephens). Abner wants a magical box that Cole is protecting but, aware that his intentions are evil, Cole entrusts the box to Kay, who proceeds to have many magical adventures throughout time and space while he safeguards the box.
Main title:
The box of delights [videorecording] / producer, Paul Stone.
Author:
Rye, Renny, directorLimb, Roger, musicTroughton, Patrick, actorStanfield, Devin, actorStephens, Robert, 1931-1995, actorHorsley, John
Imprint:
BBC, 2024.
Collation:
2 videodiscs (179 min.) : col.
Notes:
Extras to be confirmed, Region 2, 2 disc(s), Interactive menus, Languages (English), Interviews (Kay Harker and director), Other documentaries ('Time and Tide: Making 'The Box of Delights'; 'Trails and Continuity'), Blue Peter, Take Two and Pebble Mill clips.Made in 1984.Based on the novel by John Masefield.Credits: director, Renny Rye; writer, Alan Seymour; music, Roger Limb.DVDRE.DVD40.
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Patrick Troughton, Devin Stanfield, Robert Stephens, Geoffrey Lander, Jonathan Stephens, Carol Frazer, James Grout, John Horsley.
Audience:
BBFC code: U.
System details:
DVD.
Dewey class:
791.4570129
Language:
English
BRN:
3922496