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Welcome to the home of great film and TV, with three cinemas and a studio, a world-class library, regular exhibitions and a pioneering Mediatheque with 1000s of free titles for you to explore. The Great Mouse Detective (aka Basil the Great Mouse Detective) Sound Recordists: Claude Hitchcock, Gerry HumphreysĮvery Sat from 11 Sep – 16 Oct 10:30-12:30Įvery Sat from 11 Sep – 16 Oct 14:00-16:30Įvery Sat from 11 Sep – 16 Oct 14:00-15:30 Music Composed & Conducted by: Stanley Myers Screenplay by: Brian Clemens, Harry Spalding, Rosemary Anne Sissonįrom the novel A Watcher in the Woods by: Florence Engel Randallįinal Sequence Designed by: Harrison Ellenshawįinal Sequence Visual Effects: David Mattingly, Richard Kendall, Don Henry Joseph Stannard, Sight & Sound, March 2011 Meanwhile, tales abound of tension on the set involving an irritable Bette Davis, nervous executives and an embattled director. Unhappy with its initial reception, Disney recalled the film and embarked on a tortuous process of rewrites (there were reportedly 152 possible conclusions in the running) and reshoots that resulted in two variant endings, one of which made the final cut while the other, which was to utilise special effects to create an alien world, remained unfinished. This period also produced cult favourites such as The Black Hole and Tron, but neither of those can boast the decidedly troubled history – nor the eerie atmosphere – of this production.
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Through a series of uncanny events involving circles of blue light, near-fatal accidents and disturbing visions of the absent daughter, Jan comes to understand the truth behind her doppelgänger’s disappearance.īased on a 1976 novel by Florence Engel Randall, and directed by English journeyman John Hough, The Watcher in the Woods is a beautifully shot, well-acted (21-year-old Johnson is especially terrific) curio, an oddball artefact from the period in Disney’s history when the studio was making a bid for relevance in the post-_Star Wars_ landscape of mainstream cinema. As it turns out, Aylwood’s daughter Karen disappeared 30 years ago, and the matriarch’s stern visage is softened by Jan’s resemblance to her missing child. In Disney’s cult fantasy The Watcher in the Woods the Curtis family – Helen (Carroll Baker), Paul (David McCallum) and their daughters Jan (Lynn-Holly Johnson) and Ellie (Kyle Richards) – take up residence in a country pile owned by the irascible Mrs Aylwood (Bette Davis).
Soon the children become aware of strange goings on in the woods and find themselves in the middle of a spooky adventure. The owner (Davis) now lives in a house next door and notices a resemblance between one of the girls and her own daughter, who disappeared from a chapel in the local woods 30 years earlier. Disney’s supernatural family thriller sees an American family move into a manor in the English countryside.
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