The Magnet
19501h 15m480p
A classic Ealing comedy in which a young boy steals a magnet and becomes a hero.
From the archive
A mixture of a psychological study of a ten-year-old boy, an English domestic comedy and a satire on psychologists finds young Johnny Brent, the only child of a pair of psychologists, trading an "invisible watch" to a much-younger child for a large magnet.
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- Director
- Charles Frend
- Starring
- Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards, Gladys Henson, Thora Hird, Michael Brooke, Wylie Watson
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