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Bookmark this pageBlack Jack (1979)
Director: Ken Loach
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
An amiable adaptation of the classic kids' novel by Leon Garfield, which tells the adventures of a boy on the road in brutal, colourful 1750s England. Loach shoots the film with characteristic sensitivity (and scrupulous period realism), but his unwillingness to face the challenges of social history, and his failure to capture the magical spirit of the novel, let him down.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Ken Loach
Producer: Tony Garnett
Cast: Stephen Hirst, Louise Cooper, Jean Franval, Phil Askham, Pat Wallis, John Young full cast
Genre(s): Period/Swashbucklers
Duration: 110 mins
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