whistle down the wind by mary hayley bell

The children watch in dismay as the boy eventually renounces his statement. In a playground one boy gets bullied for saying he has seen Jesus. He asks why they are helping and Kathy says 'because we love you' and hands him a folded Bible picture of Jesus. When two adults appear the children have to leave and Blakey has to hide in the hay. They want a Bible story but he reads to them from a newspaper. While he sits in the hay in a Bethlehem type setting they bring him gifts and kneel as they present them. The story spreads to the other children and ten visit him in the barn. In Sunday School the children quiz their teacher and become even more convinced in their belief. They come to this conclusion because of their Sunday School stories and Blakey's shocked exclamation of 'Jesus Christ!' when Kathy, the eldest child, accidentally discovers him. Three Lancashire farm children discover a bearded fugitive (the Man/Arthur Blakey) hiding in their barn and mistake him for Jesus Christ. In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in its list of the 50 films that children should see by the age of 14. Unusually, almost all the main characters are children the film attempts to show the world through the eyes of an innocent child.

The film stars her daughter Hayley Mills, who was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best British Actress for this film. Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British children's crime drama film directed by Bryan Forbes, adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from the 1958 novel of the same name by Mary Hayley Bell.

Whistle down the wind by mary hayley bell