theme from whistle down the wind malcolm arnold

[garyw930]

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[morphlet999]

If you like this then you'll like Malcolm Arnold's music for the film Dunkirk. Timeless.

[GayGeisha]

This is just perfect

[kenny95787]

dont know why but love this tune takes me way back to my childhood happy days

[stedav100]

I first saw this film when I was about 9 years old and I sobbed my heart out to it, Still do. A delightful film set in the time when children still were innocent.

[garyw930]

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[poolfarm2]

I don't think it would be possible to make such a beautifully innocent film as this again, sadly these times have gone forever.

[ZANECLONE]

@poolfarm2 - you're so right- on both counts,sadly..!!

[vinney1130]

young children growing up in the early sixties,the most innocent and touching film ever made

[awaitthegroom]

@vinney1130 and some fo the most uncomfortable clothes too- we had macs like this and hats

[RaikenXion]

Such an awesome touching film. Im watching it right now on filmfour lol

[pellakilbane]

i love this film it reminds me of my childhood

[WeTheStrange]

A really magical film and the music is terrific.

[MisterValance]

Beautiful. Thank you.

[j1o2y3c4e]

memories i love this film great music :)

[essexperson]

Lovely  ....

[SuperDaveylad]

this film left a lasting impression in my childhood,the sweet innocence of a child still holds true with children of yesteryear, I cried too at this film ! A memorable all time great x

[martinjp1958]

The music is beyond wistful, it enters the realm of the mystical. The combination of that [and HM's face] did for me as a youth.

[clagsey]

Love this film!

'rotten cows'

[essexperson]

I saw this film on bbc 2 today. Watched it years ago with my children, by the end of the film my little daughter was sobbing.  All the child actors were amazing and Hayley Mills utterly wonderful. xx

[j43ms]

@essexperson

t'isn't jesus.

.....it's just a feller

[PeterInglisGuitar]

One of my favourite composers! Movies like this are real time capsules.

[unionjackbob]

This song reminds me of my mother. She was born in 1953 and was brought up on farms up on The Black Isle, Scotland. She always said the children dressed the same way as her brothers and sisters.

I owe it to my dear mother for showing me this film when I was young. I may get her the DVD for christmas.

Share the love people, life can be good.

[9aspengold5]

I am so glad to have grown up with Hayley Mills and her family as my idols. Such Class as compared to what kids have nowadays.

[weeeeoooow]

I remember loving this as a kid......only innocent children could think a bearded fugitive in a 'stable' is Jesus!....Beautiful!

That sweet, sad music at 1:23 ran through the film and brought tears to my eyes.

[ewaf88]

Far superior to the Musical in terms of melody and atmosphere.

[asloem]

@ewaf88 I couldn't agree more.

[kickback4me]

i live in the area were this was filmed

[TheDavey1010]

Its not jesus its just a fella. Love this film and music!

[lynta59]

Mine too! i named my daughter Hayley after Hayley Mills.

[dilshad57]

I live local to where this was filmed and the little boy now lives in a nearby village and fits PVC windows!!!!!!

[LfCboy2Dave]

my english teacher's ma was in that film

[invinciblec1]

it is true this is a beautiful movie i love it my self and America puts out a lot of trash but you should watch Truman Capote a Christmas memory with geraldine page 1966 its on u tube a lovely childhood memory of his .and how about to kill a mockingbird with gregory peck a must see , i am British and live in the u s i don't like it hear but I'm stuck hear and its hard when i watch these movies,

[gramule]

greetings from the uk. thanks for the link to capote, fantastic. i live very close to where whistel down the wind was filmed, it hasn't changed one bit,

[p1nkAcid]

them were the days eh?!?!?

[NonInflatable]

Exquisite tune.

[sloanek]

Excellent music! Superb film! Childhood innocence not to be seen ever again, thanks to all those awful American films! Whisle this whenever you're feeling down! You'll never need a Therapist!

[exhale51]

One of my all time favourite movies - Lancashire life in the early 60's.

[martinjp1958]

Malcolm Arnold seems to have been reviled by sections of the classical music fraternity later in life. Why was this? Anybody know?

[crowhillian58]

Maybe because he was from Northampton and not the poncy south.

[tubaherby]

@martinjp1958 because he continued to write melody when melody went out of fashion.

[Cartoonsbystan]

I`ve been in love with Hayley Mills ever since I saw this film at the pictures while living in Morecambe as a lad.

I`ve just watched it again tonight on video and it still makes me feel good, and I`m almost 60. They couldn`t make a film like that today, children have lost their innocence.

[tubaherby]

My all-time favourite film and one that stirred something in me for a lifetimes love of anything Arnold.

That 'crucifiction' scene at the end.......and then the two little girls arriving late 'Have we missed him? Yes, you've missed him this time but he'll be back' - priceless!

[sparkymachine]

Just watched the film again, cried again lol. The music is so much part of the film and the acting is a delight, especially the children. I'm sitting in those East Lancs hills now where I live and there are still kids like those about - magic.

[jay2009ize]

What a classic,funny that as I write this its on BBC2 today saturday 8th,hayley mills is fantastic in this,Ive always wonderded if the young kids in this film still have happy memories of filming this,they must be in their fortys fiftys now,lovely film x

[MrKASSIOPI]

The film was BBC2 the other day.

[dogssteve]

the film, the music, the acting, the mucky kids, the bleak lancashire landscape, brings all of the postwar 60's come flooding back - it wasn't all about swinging london.

[martinjp1958]

Filmed in and around the Clitheroe area. My Dad saw Dickie Attenborough nr the set in a big fur coat. My cousin was one of the 'disciples'. Sublime theme music.

[idigyoubaby]

Malcolm Arnold does the same thing in this score as Elmer Bernstein did in Mockingbird. Both capture what it means to be an innocent child.

[idigyoubaby]

What a gem of a movie. My grandmother Renie took me and my brothers and two cousins to see this in 1961. It is one of my favorite movies. In no other movie except maybe To Kill a Mockingbird do the children act so authentically.

[crowhillian58]

I remember as a kid watching this one snowy Christmas sunday evening in the 60's.

Ah, the innocence and magic of childhood.............

[diva5356]

Thank you for finding this music. I have loved it for years.

[bassmonkey1962]

One of my favorite movies, as a child. They NEVER show this movie anymore on television. What a shame.

[gnomely1]

Wonderful memories of a nice time to be young, the summer of 1961. Very evocative piece of music.

[MrDAYSGONE]

I agree, those wonderful, never to be forgotten days when life seemed uncomplicated.

[crowhillian58]

Yes, agree, finding a convicted murderer in your dad's barn is as uncomplicated as it gets! Lol ; )

[brasil33]

All seems infected that the infected spy, As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.

Alexander Pope 1711

[withtheclouds]

I must have seen this movie when I was about 7 and all I could remember over the intervening 48 years were this haunting theme and that it was about some kids who hid a guy they thought was Jesus. Finally tracked it down. Thank heavens for the internet!

[ex3rgj]

great to look back on i was a kid then,how times have changed.

[mrsteadyhands]

I was about 10 when this came out, very similair to my childhood. Brought up on farms on the Black Isle, Scotland.

Good memories, reminds me of my recently departed father.

[assandthem]

Malcom Arnold directed Royal Albert Hall orchestra during a live recording event named Deep Purple's "Concert for group and orchestra" (1969)

[Schnappi1936]

Must of been about 50 years ago that I saw that movie.

[stebuzz57]

@Schnappi1936 its just had its 50th anniversary  this week, filmed in a lancashire village.