The Glitterball (1977)

Directed by

Harley Cokeliss

Genre

children's film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

56 min

Rated

U

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A small glowing ball from space lands on Earth. Two children find it and try to help it get back home.

lightheartedwhimsicalgentleplayfulnostalgiclow-keycuriousmildly adventurous

What happens

The Glitterball is a 1977 British sci-fi children's film made by Mark Forstater Productions for the Children's Film Foundation. It was directed by Harley Cokeliss, credited under his birth name of Harley Cokliss. The film was screened at the 2010 Edinburgh Film Festival as part of a retrospective of 16 "rarely seen" British films made between 1967 and 1979, "rediscovered" after a year of detective work by event staff. In 1979, Methuen Publishing released the children's novel by the same name, written by screenwriters Howard Thompson and Harley Cokliss. ISBN 9780416863406. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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