The Amazing Mr. Blunden
- written and directed by Lionel Jeffries
- Feature Film
- Fantasy
- Families
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- The Amazing Mr. Blunden, written and directed by Lionel Jeffries (at movie theaters, UK, 30 November 1972).
As in the The Ghosts, which formed the basis for the film, a mysterious Mr. Blunden arranges for a widow and her children to move to an old English house while the rightful heir to the house is tracked down. But in the film, young Lucy and Jamie are in 1918 rather than the 1960s, and the “ghost children” are from 1818 rather than the 1860s. Nevertheless, Lucy, Jamie, Sara, George, and Tom all have the same adventure in the past along with a cool Grandchild Paradox.
—Michael Main
Now is the time. Look straight ahead and don’t be afraid.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1800 to 1899: Home time of Sara and George.
- Circa AD 1900 to 1929: Home time of Lucy and Jamie.
- Time Travel Methods
- Hypnosis, Mental Powers, Potions, and Drug-Induced Travel: A recipe to move the “Wheel of Time“.
- Magic Time Travel: The magic recipe.
- Themes
- Fix History!: Save Sara and George!.
- Grandchild Paradox: Lucy and Jamie rescue their ancestor before she procreates..
- Fictional Tags
- Ghosts: Mr. Blunden (but not any of the children).
- Groupings
Variants
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- The Amazing Mr. Blunden, written and directed by Lionel Jeffries (at movie theaters, UK, 30 November 1972).
Antonia Barber (based on a work by)
Previous Works
based on The Ghosts by Antonia Barber (1969)
Indexer Notes
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- What would you call the paradox where their grandmother died before their ancestors were born and they go back to fix it? What other examples exist? Up in the ITTDB Citadel, we’re going with The Grandmother Paradox.