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Big Wheels and Sailor (1979)

Director: Doug Aitken

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From Time Out Film Guide

Lively, innocent and highly characteristic Children's Film Foundation offering in which the 'Big Wheels' of a decidedly well-spoken truckdriver (plus two kids) is hijacked by 'Mother', the cigar-smoking owner of a cab company (Reid), slit-eyed and hissingly dismissive of her incompetent 'children'. Plenty of wheezing hydraulic brakes, junior motorbike rough-riding, and chasing over teetering industrial structures. No less implausible than Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but from a different age.

Author: JPy 0000-00-00 00:00:00

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Director: Doug Aitken

Cast: Nigel Humphries, Julian Curry, Sheila Reid, Dominic Letts, Glen Cunningham

Genre(s): Children's

Duration: 55 mins


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