The Adventures of Hal 5

1958
59m

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A children's adventure. Hal V is a car owned (and loved) by the Hayward family and their children. Then a wicked garage owner tries to steal their beloved car to sell for lots of money, but ... Read allA children's adventure. Hal V is a car owned (and loved) by the Hayward family and their children. Then a wicked garage owner tries to steal their beloved car to sell for lots of money, but the children are too quick for him and foil his wicked plots at every turn.A children's adventure. Hal V is a car owned (and loved) by the Hayward family and their children. Then a wicked garage owner tries to steal their beloved car to sell for lots of money, but the children are too quick for him and foil his wicked plots at every turn.

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6.4/10

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A calendar at the garage shows August 1957 suggesting the film was made around that time.

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In the opening credits the main crew's duties are listed as follows (parentheses added when necessary to clarify the meaning of each duty): Jo Jago......................... took the pictures (Cinematographer) Eily Boland..................... arranged them (editor) Anthony Hinton.................. managed the business (production manager) Jim Goding...................... operated the camera Doreen Soan..................... did the continuity Don Russell..................... designed the sets Laurie Peake & George Adams..... recorded the sound W.L. Trytel..................... wrote the music

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4/10

Typical Childrens Film Foundation Movie

John Glyn-Jones is the crooked manager of a local station in a chain of service stations. He cheats David Morrell on the repairs to his tractor, forcing him to sell his antique car for a song, which he sells in turn to vicar William Russell. He then kites up various repairs that don't fix the problem. Meanwhile, Russell gets on with his duties, spending a lot of time with his niece and nephew, leaving Hal Five -- that's the car -- to tend to his own vengeance.

It's a Children's Film Foundation movie, and it has the usual hallmarks of such movies: beautiful camerawork by Jo Jago, and a simple-minded telling of the story, with clumsily-devised slapstick punishments on mean Mr. Glyn-Jones. The character of the car is indicated by occasionally imposing a caricature face on it. Given that it times in at less than an hour, it seems pretty leisurely in its pacing. All in all, it seems likely to please no one but elderly people who have no idea what children really like: lots of blood, thunder, and messiness.