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Overview

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7.9/10   914 votes
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Director:
Waris Hussein
Writer:
Alan Parker (original story and screenplay)
Contact:
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Release Date:
21 April 1971 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama | Romance more
Tagline:
A tender love story for everyone who was ever ten years old.
Plot:
Two youngsters declare to their parents that they want to get married. Not sometime in the future but as soon as possible... more | add synopsis
User Comments:
This movie took me by storm more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Mark Lester ... Daniel
Tracy Hyde ... Melody

Jack Wild ... Ornshaw
Colin Barrie ... Chambers
Billy Franks ... Burgess

Ashley Knight ... Stacey
Craig Marriott ... Dadds
William Vanderpuye ... O'Leary
Peter Walton ... Fensham
Camille Davis ... Muriel
Dawn Hope ... Maureen
Kay Skinner ... Peggy
Lesley Roach ... Rhoda
Sheila Steafel ... Mrs. Latimer
Roy Kinnear ... Mr. Perkins
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Additional Details

Also Known As:
S.W.A.L.K.
To Have Somebody (UK) (working title)
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Runtime:
103 min
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color (Eastmancolor)
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono

Fun Stuff

Trivia:
Mark Lester and Jack Wild had previously appeared together as Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger in Oliver! (1968), the Oscar winning musical adaptation of the Charles Dickens classic. more
Quotes:
[in the school office about to get "slippered"]
Mr. Dicks: Now, why are you here, Ornshaw?
Ornshaw: Because you invited me, sir.
Mr. Dicks: And why did I invite you, Ornshaw?
Ornshaw: Well, because I couldn't translate the latin, sir.
Mr. Dicks: Why, Ornsahw? WHY?
Ornshaw: Because it's a bloody silly out-of-date language do you mean, sir?
Mr. Dicks: Two was it, Ornhsaw... I think we'll make it four...
[trying to hold his temper]
Mr. Dicks: ...and why do you think it's a... silly out-of-date language, Ornshaw?
[...]
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Movie Connections:
Referenced in Sekai no chûshin de, ai o sakebu (2004) more
Soundtrack:
First of May more

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15 out of 16 people found the following comment useful:-
This movie took me by storm, 1 April 1999
10/10
Author: andialu from Santiago, Chile

I saw this movie when I was 10 years old or so, I had a crush for a girl in my neighborhood and this movie took me by storm. I have not been able to find it in video format. But the story is so simple yet very touching for everybody I know has seen this movie.

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