Johnny on the Run (1953)
- Directed by
- Lewis Gilbert
- Genre
- adventure film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 08m
- Rating
- 8.3 of 10 from 3 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A boy runs away from his home and has adventures in Edinburgh and the Scottish countryside. The film shows what the city and rural areas looked like in the early 1950s.
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What happens
Johnny on the Run is a 1953 British children's adventure film directed by Lewis Gilbert and starring Eugeniusz Chylek and Sydney Tafler. It was written by Patricia Lathan and produced by the Children's Film Foundation. The film includes documentary footage of streets in the south side of Edinburgh in the early 1950s and of rural Perthshire. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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