The children's film and television Foundation drew £60000 a year from the Eady Levy on box office receipts.
In 1985 the Thatcher government abolished the Eady Levy and this resulted in the end of filmmaking for the Foundation. In any event by this time there were very few Saturday morning children's matinees at which they could be shown.
So this film was one of the last to be made.
Instead of children rounding up a gang of thieves,the children are the gang of thieves,and they end up in a Juvenile Magistrates court presided over by an avuncular Clifford Rose. So it is very different from its predecessors. It is certainly among the best of the films they made and well worth seeing.
In 1985 the Thatcher government abolished the Eady Levy and this resulted in the end of filmmaking for the Foundation. In any event by this time there were very few Saturday morning children's matinees at which they could be shown.
So this film was one of the last to be made.
Instead of children rounding up a gang of thieves,the children are the gang of thieves,and they end up in a Juvenile Magistrates court presided over by an avuncular Clifford Rose. So it is very different from its predecessors. It is certainly among the best of the films they made and well worth seeing.