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Feature film — 1979

Robbie (1979)

6.00h 13mHorror

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".

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Director: Ronald Dunkley

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Cast & crew

Peter Purves as Narrator

Peter Purves

Narrator

R

Robin Crane

Robbie

D

Deborah Norton

Mum

P

Peter Bolt

Bert

Gary Forbes as Jake

Gary Forbes

Jake

A

Alison Bond

Sally

M

Matthew Roberton

P.C.

P

Philippa Howell

W.P.C.

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