Children's Film Foundation - Cff

[Steve Crook]

name='philip hindley']anyone got the one where the kids find a ball or magnet which as a magical power or something it glows I seem to remember.?

The Glitterball (1977)



From the TV Cream list of CFF Films:

GLITTERBALL - IT'S THE late '70s. STAR WARS is causing much damage screenwise. The Kids are deserting your nice, honest, provincial, low-budget adventures in droves. What to do? Put on a cheap-as-cheap-can sci-fi winner, that's what. The "aliens" in this effort were - wait for it - animated ball bearings/silvered golf balls, who trundled jerkily around, devouring cakes, Marathons etc. while emitting a high-pitched bleepy noise. CFF mainstay DUDLEY SUTTON was the obligatory nasty grown-up who was out to exploit them for some reason or other. Two kids found one of the balls and "befriended" it somehow. It all came to a head "down the rec", where the balls had their revenge, massing up in less-than-spectacular manner to clobber the foe. The decorations on an archetypal seventies trifle never seemed the same again...



Steve

[billy bentley]

Obviously, I'm a latecomer to this thread. Hope this isn't too stupid a question, but here goes anyway - is there such a thing as a list of CFF flicks that are available on DVD ?

[didi-5]

Some of you might be interested to know that a CFF Famous Five series is showing at the BFI on 1st August in the afternoon: Five Have a Mystery to Solve.

[Film Man]

Try HMV on-line Billy...Network brought out 4 DVDs of CFF material but they didn't sell very well...a few copies still exist with HMV and others, entitled 'Saturday Morning Pictures'. Sadly the masters of most of the original titles are rotting away in the dusty vaults of the BFI.

Film Man.

[billy farmer]

name='billy farmer']i am looking for the following cff titles on dvd any help in finding any of them would be greatly appreciated.

1 all at sea

2 anoop and the elephant

3 the big catch

4 blind man's bluff

5 blinker's spy-spotter

6 blow your own trumpet

7 the boy who never was

8 calamity the cow

9 the cat gang

10 caught in the net

11 circus friends

12 countdown to danger

13 danger on dartmoor

14 danger point

15 davey jones' locker

16 daylight robbery

17 deep waters

18 the dog and the diamonds

19 flash the sheepdog

20 the flood

21 five have a mystery to solve

22 a horse called jester

23 the hostages

24 the hunch

25 kadoyng

26 lionheart

27 mauro the gypsy

28 the mine and the minotaur

29 mischief

30 the missing note

31 mr.selkie

32 mystery on bird island

33 night ferry

34 nosey dobson

35 operation third form

36 the peregrine hunters

37 peril for the guy

38 professor popper's problems

39 raising the roof

40 the rescue squad

41 rockets in the dunes

42 the salvage gang

43 the sea children

44 seal island

45 scramble

46 the secret cave

47 the secret of the forest

48 seventy deadly pills

49 skid kids

50 smokey joe's revenge

51 the stolen airliner

52 the stolen plans

53 tim driscoll's donkey

54 treasure at the mill

55 the troublesome double

56 where's johnny?

57 wings of mystery

58 the wreck-raisers

I wondered if anyone has got any of the above titles, i have now got Treasure At The Mill and Caught In The Net any help in finding any of the other titles would be much appreciated.

[billy bentley]

Billy, Is that a list of CFF titles ? Billy

[maturin]

name='philip hindley']anyone got the one where the kids find a ball or magnet which as a magical power or something it glows I seem to remember.?

Isn't that also the plot of One Wish Too Many?

I have that if you'd like it.

Richard

[didi-5]

Does anyone remember which CFF film had a little know-it-all boy with black curls who was helping other kids to solve a mystery? It's a long time since I saw it but would love to see it again. We said at the time that the little boy looked a bit like Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame if that helps!

[Steve Crook]

name='didi-5']Does anyone remember which CFF film had a little know-it-all boy with black curls who was helping other kids to solve a mystery? It's a long time since I saw it but would love to see it again. We said at the time that the little boy looked a bit like Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple fame if that helps!

The answer is, "most of them"

Many of them had one smart kid in the gang



Can you remember any of the plot? What was they mystery that the kids were trying to solve? Who played the guest baddie? (Often a well known actor)



Steve

[didi-5]

name='Steve Crook']The answer is, "most of them"

Many of them had one smart kid in the gang



Can you remember any of the plot? What was they mystery that the kids were trying to solve? Who played the guest baddie? (Often a well known actor)

I'm afraid not - the only thing I remember was the kid involved. Dudley Sutton rings a bell maybe as well.

[Steve Crook]

name='didi-5']I'm afraid not - the only thing I remember was the kid involved. Dudley Sutton rings a bell maybe as well.

He did a few of them, including Gllitterball mentioned above



Steve

[billy farmer]

Dudley Sutton was not in Glitterball but he was in Paganini Strikes Again (1973) which features a boy with black hair this may be the film didi-5 is thinking of. The guest baddie in Glitterball was played by Ron Pember.

[didi-5]

name='billy farmer']Dudley Sutton was not in Glitterball but he was in Paganini Strikes Again (1973) which features a boy with black hair this may be the film didi-5 is thinking of. The guest baddie in Glitterball was played by Ron Pember.

That rings a bell so it might well be the one - thanks!

[Steve Crook]

name='billy farmer']Dudley Sutton was not in Glitterball but he was in Paganini Strikes Again (1973) which features a boy with black hair this may be the film didi-5 is thinking of. The guest baddie in Glitterball was played by Ron Pember.

I was just on my way out when I replied to that. I only checked the TV Cream list of CFF films. I should have checked the IMDb as well



Steve

[Steve Crook]

name='didi-5']That rings a bell so it might well be the one - thanks!

From the TV Cream list of CFF films:



Paganini Strikes Again (1973) Mike and Bill, on their way to a music lesson, get stuck in a lift. They hear a gunshot and see a pair of yellow shoes run past. They suspect some unseen criminal has robbed the nearby jewellery shop, but dagnab it, the police just won’t believe them. So, as ever, it’s up to The Kids once more…



More info at the IMDb



Steve

[tellingbone]

Hi,



I don't suppose anyone has a copy of The Glitterball do they? Some of it was filmed in Woolco in Hatfield and I was working there around the time this was made so I'd love to see the old place again.



Cheers



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