Les Enfants du chemin de fer
1970 • 109 min • Drama · Family
Our family guide
Best from age 7- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 67 Audience · 103 · 47%
Après que leur père a été accusé à tort, trois enfants de l'époque édouardienne déménagent avec leur mère à la campagne. Là, ils vivent des aventures et nouent des amitiés près d'une ligne de chemin de fer, œuvrant finalement pour innocenter leur père.
- Violence & peril
- 1/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Un enfant est blessé
- Des enfants sont confrontés à des difficultés
What it models well
- La loyauté familiale
- La gentillesse envers les étrangers
- La persévérance
Talk about it after
- L'injustice et les fausses accusations
- Se faire de nouveaux amis
- La vie au début des années 1900
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Top billed cast
Director: Lionel Jeffries • Crew: Lionel Jeffries, Robert Lynn
Trailers & clips
The Railway Children (1970) ORIGINAL TRAILER
2022 Re-Release Trailer
THE RAILWAY CHILDREN - 'Now and Then' Documentary
Reviewer notes
RecommendedA well-to-do suburban family suddenly get a visitor one evening; their father is taken away and their lives turned topsy-turvy. They relocate to "Three Chimneys" a ramshackle house beside a railway line in Yorkshire where they slowly settle into a new life making friends as they go. Bernard Cribbins steals this as the permanently chirpy station porter “Mr.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersA film version of another one of those children's classic novels from the early 20th century. The younger actors from necessity need to carry a movie like this, and I thought they did a grand job. They don’t overact much at all, and are sometimes subtle with a witty line or childlike observation.…
RecommendedTrusted family reviewersIt's like we're in a besieged castle, the arrows of the foe striking against the battlements. Adapted from E. Nesbit's much adored novel, this filmic version is directed by Lionel Jeffries and stars Dinah Sheridan, Bernard Cribbins, William Mervyn, Iain Cuthbertson, Jenny Agutter, Sally Thomsett and Gary Warren. Music is by Johnny Douglas and cinematography by Arthur Ibbetson.…
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Details
- TMDB audience
- 6.7/10 (103)
- Age rating
- G
- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $375,000
- Franchise
- The Railway Children Collection
- IMDb
- tt0066279
