The Railway Children
The railway, the children... and the wonderful secret they'll share with you!
1970 • 109 min • Drama · Family
Our family guide
Best from age 7- 100 Reviewers · 3 · 53%
- 67 Audience · 103 · 47%
Baada ya baba yao kushtakiwa kimakosa, watoto watatu wa kipindi cha Edwardian wanahamia mashambani na mama yao. Huko, wanapata matukio na urafiki karibu na njia ya reli, hatimaye wakijitahidi kuondoa aibu kwa jina la baba yao.
- Violence & peril
- 1/10
- Language
- 1/10
- Drinking, drugs & smoking
- 0/10
- Romance & sensuality
- 0/10
- Scary moments
- 2/10
Heads up
- Mtoto anajeruhiwa
- Watoto wanakabiliwa na magumu
What it models well
- Uaminifu wa familia
- Wema kwa wageni
- Uvumilivu
Talk about it after
- Ukosefu wa haki na mashtaka ya uwongo
- Kufanya urafiki mpya
- Maisha mwanzoni mwa miaka ya 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
