An 11-year-old James Fox – later, of course, to make his name in the likes of The Servant and Performance – was given his first starring role in this Ealing comedy set largely in Liverpool and the Wirral. Fox (still acting under his actual first name, William) plays a schoolboy who tricks another kid out of a fancy-looking magnet, and then becomes an inadvertent hero after it ends up in an iron lung.
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- 7/2/2015
- by Guardian Staff
- The Guardian - Film News
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