Child's Play (Original title)
Dates: 1952 (Copyright), 25 October 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Margaret Thomson
Synopsis: Account of the mischief of several youngsters in a small village who have learnt how to split the atom.
Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction
Subjects: Children, Villages, Atomic energy
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 68 mins Length: 6150 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 68 mins 25 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Dates: 1952 (Copyright), 25 October 1954 (Release)Country: United KingdomDirector: Margaret Thomson
Synopsis: Account of the mischief of several youngsters in a small village who have learnt how to split the atom.
Genres: Comedy, Science Fiction
Subjects: Children, Villages, Atomic energy
Releases
Date: 1954Country: United KingdomRelease type: TheatricalFormat: 35mm Film - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 68 mins Length: 6150 FeetDialogue (original): English
Date: October 2014Country: United KingdomRelease type: InternetFormat: not specified - Black and White - SoundRuntime: 68 mins 25 secs - Dialogue (original): EnglishDistributor: BFIPlayer
Credits
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©: Group 3 Limited, A Group 3 production: Group 3, Executive Producer: John Grierson, Produced by: Herbert Mason, Production Manager: Jack Hicks, Production Controller: John Baxter, Assistant Director: Denis Johnson, Continuity: Shirley Barnes, Screenplay by: Peter Blackmore, Adaptation by: Margaret Thomson, Additional Scenes by: Don Sharp, From an original story by: Don Sharp, Director of Photography: Denny Densham, Editor: John Legard, Art Director: Michael Stringer, Music Composed & Conducted by: Antony Hopkins, Sound Recordist: Len Page, Sound System: RCA Sound System, Made at: Middlesex, England Southall Studos
Cast
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Mona Washbourne (Miss Goslett), Peter Martyn (P.C. Parker), Dorothy Alison (Margery Chappell), Ingeborg Wells (Lea Blotz), Carl Jaffe (Carl Blotz), Ballard Berkeley (Dr Nightingale), Joan Young (Miss Chizzler), Robert Raglan (police inspector), Mai Bacon (Mrs Briggs), Molly Raynor (Mrs Cannon), Barbara Hicks (policewoman), Jack May (Bob Crouch), John Sharp (Sergeant Butler), Peter Sallis (Bill (van driver)), Robert Lankasheer (Prof. Chappel), Wyndham Goldie (director atomic research), Christopher Beeny (Horatio Flynn), Wendy Westcott (Mary Huxley), Ian Smith (Tom Chizzler), Anneke Willys (Alice Nightingale), Ernest Scott (Ernest Chappell), Patrick Wells (Hans Blotz), Elain Sykes (Linda Cappel)