Scramble (film)

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Titles
Directed by David Eady
Written byMichael Barnes
Produced byMichael Barnes
David Eady
StarringIan Ramsey
Robin Askwith
Lucinda Barnes
Stephen Mallett
CinematographyJo Jago
Edited byJack Dennis
Music by Harry Robertson
Production
company
Eady-Barnes Productions
Distributed by Children's Film Foundation (U.K.)
Release date
  • December 1970 (1970-12)(U.K.)
Running time
61 min
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

Scramble is a 1970 British children's sports drama film directed by David Eady and starring Ian Ramsey, Robin Askwith, Lucinda Barnes and Stephen Mallett. [1] [2] It was written by Michael Barnes and produced by Barnes and Eady for the Children's Film Foundation.

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Reception

The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "A motorcycle scramble club provides an exciting background for this schoolboy adventure, whose suspense reaches its high point in the incident of the sawn-through bridge. The story's serious moral basis (ne'er-do-well Jimmy turning over a new leaf) is brightly camouflaged by David Eady's comic approach, with Alfred Marks giving an enjoyable performance as the discomfited Mr. Hepplewhite and his real-life son Gareth causing much amusement as the cheerfully inept Oscar. Indeed, the younger actors all come up to the high standard set by the adult participants, making Scramble one of the best and most entertaining films the Foundation has yet produced." [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Scramble". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 9 August 2024.
  2. ↑ "Scramble (1970)". Archived from the original on 18 January 2017.
  3. ↑ "Scramble". The Monthly Film Bulletin . 38 (444): 102. 1 January 1971 – via ProQuest.
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