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GB
1952
23mins
Dir: Wendy Toye
Starring: Alan Badel and Geoffrey Bayldon
A stranger arrives in a small town, costumed as a flamboyant itinerant magician with a folding bag of tricks
This enthralling short won the Best Fiction award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival where it was described as a ‘masterpiece’. This brilliant little drama was filmed wholly in Windsor and there are opening and closing scenes at Windsor & Eton Riverside station with pre-war 3 SUB EMU’s present.
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