Cinema Retro has received the following press release from the British Film Institute relating to this Region 2 DVD set:
9 FILMS IN A 3-DVD SET, RELEASED 16 MARCH, 2020
With Arnold ‘Dad’s Army’ Ridley, Sally ‘Man About the House’
Thomsett, Warren ‘Alf Garnett’ Mitchell, Dennis ‘Minder’ Waterman, Wilfrid
‘Steptoe’ Brambell, Ronnie Barker, Bernard ‘Dr Who’ Cribbins and Bill ‘Heartbeat’
Maynard
Treasure at the Mill (1957)
Wings of Mystery (1963)
Seventy Deadly Pills (1963)
Go Kart Go (1963)
A Ghost of a Chance (1968)
The Sea Children (1973)
Sky Pirates (1976)
The Mine and the Minotaur (1980)
Friend or Foe (1981)
A sizzling Saturday-afternoon sofa-thon is in store with
this mouth-watering melange of cinematic corkers from the Children’s Film
Foundation: Britain’s best-loved and longest-running producer of quality
children’s cinema for kids of all ages. Released in a 3-disc DVD set by
the BFI on 16 March 2020, Children’s Film Foundation Bumper Box Vol 2, brings
together nine fantastic films and additional special features; witness
long-lost sights and sounds of the British Isles in A Letter from the Isle of
Wight, A Letter from Wales and A Letter from Ayrshire – three 1950s
movie-missives; actor-turned-pop idol Simon Fisher Turner spills the beans on
working for the CFF in the 1970s and Friend or Foe director John Krish appears
in his final filmed interview. Here’s the run-down on these top-drawer vintage
feature-film smashers:
Disc 1:
Chase civil war booty in Lone Pine series author Malcolm
Saville’s Treasure at the Mill; hunt secret formulas with Arnold ‘Dad’s Army’
Ridley in Wings of Mystery and cheer on Sally ‘Man About the House’ Thomsett
and hiss at Warren ‘Alf Garnett’ Mitchell and his Seventy Deadly Pills!
Disc 2:
Step on the gas with Dennis ‘Minder’ Waterman and Wilfrid
‘Steptoe’ Brambell in Go Kart Go, shout Boo! at haunted-house developers Ronnie
Barker and his bumbling lackey Bernard ‘Dr Who’ Cribbins in A Ghost of a Chance
and save the earth with a tribe of aquatic eco-warriors in The Sea Children.
Disc 3:
Take off for a model-plane Battle of Britain with Bill ‘Heartbeat’
Maynard in Sky Pirates, go underground in The Mine and the Minotaur and face
the folly of war in Friend or Foe.
The first pressing includes an illustrated booklet with
an essay and notes on the films and extras by BFI Video Producer Vic Pratt.
Vic, who is a writer, film historian and archivist as
well as a CFF fan and child of the 1970s, is available to talk about the set.
Product details
RRP: £29.99/ Cat. no. BFIV2082 / Cert PG
UK / 1957–1981 / colour, black and white / total runtime
493 mins / English language / original aspect ratio 1.33:1 / 3 x DVD9: PAL,
25fps, Dolby Digital 1.0 mono audio (192kbps)