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

The catalogue in 3D

The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.

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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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