From the first time I saw this film (when I was very young) I've had a bit of a crush on Sally Thomsett. It's one of the enduring legacies of my childhood, and I don't even care how silly it is!
So there!
Haha, she's very cute. I, on the other hand, found Jenny Agutter most alluring (something only reinforced by her appearance in Walkabout shortly thereafter).
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I suppose on a clear day you can see the class struggle from here.
Yes, Walkabout was certainly a gift to my teenage hormones too, along with Blue Lagoon (of course), but I always felt that Jenny Agutter lacked a certain warmth. Though clearly very talented and attractive, she just seemed a bit chilly. Sally was cute, funny, and dare I say huggable... yet she also exuded a sense of barely suppressed sexuality that really got my attention as a kid. I guess I just prefer a few more layers to a person... though obviously not in the clothig sense of the word! LOL
But before I come off as a total perv, I should emphasise that since reaching adulthood, my appreciation of the films mentioned is more to do with their cinematic merits rather than anything smutty. I find The Railway Children genuinely moving and uplifting, and watch it because it makes me feel nostalgic (in a good way) for a bygone age. I was a railway child myself, spending many blissful summers playing on the (then) disused Kent & East Sussex steam railway, where there were engines, rolling stock, and miles of deserted track, and no one but me and my brother to enjoy them. There was even a deserted station, complete with all the trappings of a 1940s/50s station, with ticket office, milk churns and barrows on the platform, and vintage posters. It had been deserted and left untouched for over 30 years. We discovered it and claimed it as our own. Then, a few years later, it got restored and reopened, which screwed-up our secret railway adventures, but was very useful for film and TV companies!
I thought Jenny Agutter was ever so sweet and innocent in this film and very endearing, and you forget that she is only acting and probably a naughty girl in real life.
I guess it was too much too ask of her to keep and retain that innocence in her other films which is a bit of a letdown ha ha.
Jenny Agutter - my word.
shareJenny Agutter was a girl that probably grew up a little too fast because of the fact that she was in the movie business. During the filming of "I Start Counting", also released in 1970, the story is that it was difficult to keep her from going out clubbing. She was 16 or 17 at the time depending on when the film wrapped. An earlier poster described her as being somewhat "cold". This viewer of most of her work up to "Werewolves" does not get that impression about her at all.
She was certainly innocent in "Walkabout" as well as "TRC" up until the last scene of Roeg's masterpiece. She is sweet and loving in "I Start Counting" as well.
Mine was with the late Patty Duke.
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