Product Details

• Actors: Jack Blumenau, Clare Thomas, Jemima Rooper, Jenny Agutter, Michael Kitchen
• Directors: Catherine Morshead
• Writers: E. Nesbit, Simon Nye
• Producers: Charles Elton, Freya Pinsent, Jonathan Powell
• Format: PAL
• Language: English
• Number of tapes: 1
• Run Time: 108 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (32 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00004R815

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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Please Make Sure You See The 1970 Movie First, December 19, 2004

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This review is from: Masterpiece Theatre: Railway Children (DVD)

This PBS version of "The Railway Children" is nowhere near as

charming as the original 1970 movie. If you saw this TV version and liked it, you owe it to yourself to see the young Jenny Agutter in the earlier film. In my opinion, the PBS remake lacks the warmth and civility of the original.

20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Strong effort in remaking a classic, June 21, 2003

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This review is from: Masterpiece Theatre: Railway Children (DVD)

This is a valiant effort to remake the 1970 film based on Edith Nesbit's novel. In comparing the two, the new version features more "emoting"; things which went unsaid but were implied in 1970 are now told to us rather than shown. This is to the detriment of the newer version.
In spite of this, it is still a beautifully presented tale appropriate for the entire family; I think the production team was quite brave to even attempt a remake.

23 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Railway Classic, November 13, 2000

By A Customer

This 2000 Drama classic was shown on our local PBS station under the Masterpiece Theatre title. After viewing this movie, once again Masterpiece Theatre has done itself proud giving us a thoroughly enjoyable and quaint look into the past. The actors and actresses were well chosen and performed well in telling us the story of three young children and their mother taken from rich to poor for a temporary, but unexpected time during the absense of their father/husband. I enjoyed this film very much. The story was simple and easy going, no huge, tramatic drama, but rather with less complex problems of earlier years in history. I find this type of film much more enjoyable today, in a much harder, cold world where we live surrounded by far to much devastation and tragedy. We all could use more films portraying elegance, manners and gentility. A very relaxing film and great stress reliever. END