![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() In fact, the man (Bates) is actually a convicted murderer who is a hunted fugitive. When he’s discovered, he mutters ‘Jesus Christ’ in surprise just at the moment the kids ask who he is, so they instantly (because they are God-fearing, religious children) believe that he really is the son of God. Young Kathy (Mills, swathed in a big coat most of the time to hide the fact she was sixteen but playing younger) and her two younger siblings find a man hiding in their barn. Based on a novel by Mary Hayley Bell (aka Mrs John Mills, and Hayley Mills’s mum), Whistle Down the Wind is a thoughtful British film that marked Bryan Forbes’s ( The Stepford Wives, International Velvet) directorial debut. ![]()
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