Robbie

APPROPIATE

1979 / 13min.

Rating6

Genres

Horror

Synopsis

Young Robbie, a keen footballer and a railway enthusiast, is persuaded by his big brother to go through a hole in a railway fence on to the track for some reason. His laces become caught on the tracks and he has an accident so serious that he will never play football again. A film for showing to eight to eleven-year old children and their parents, which points out the folly of breaking railway fences and trespassing on the line, and illustrates the immediate dangers. Part of BFI collection "The Age of the Train".

Directors

James Ritchie

Actors

Deborah Norton

Peter Purves

Matthew Roberton

Philippa Howell

Gary Forbes

Robin Crane

Peter Bolt

Alison Bond

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