Joan Aiken Booklist Joan Aiken Message Board. It is up to Bonnie and Sylvia to escape the workhouse, evade the ravenous wolves, and foil Slightcarp s plans! Eleanor David ... interviews and features from the international film magazine. Pelicula infanto-juvenil de 1986 conocida en España como "Tierra de lobos" y en latinoamérica como "El castillo de los lobos". You are here. Only the servants and the prowling wolves are their companions. Details: 1989, UK, Cert PG, 92 mins. Bonnie (Hudson) and her timid cousin Sylvia are forced to investigate the gothic dwellings of the evil Letitia Slighcarp (Beacham) when it becomes apparent she's planning on stealing the family estate. Yes No. Time Out says. Direction: Stuart Orme. Based on the much-loved children's book by Joan Aitken and made in 1989, this spooky family film is a classic Dickensian-gothic tale … Bauer Media Group consists of: Bauer Consumer Media Ltd, Company number: 01176085, Bauer Radio Ltd, Company Number: 1394141, Registered Office: Media House, Peterborough Business Park, Lynch Wood, Peterborough, PE2 6EA H Bauer Publishing,Company Number: LP003328, Registered Office: Academic House, 24-28 Oval Road, London, NW1 7DT.All registered in England and Wales. Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Geraldine James, Richard O’Brien. Slightcarp and her accomplice Grimshaw (Mel Smith) are plotting to steal the family fortune and sabotage the Willoughby’s ship. Filming Dates. She found the book very exciting and rewarding though, and I think you will, too. Bonnie and cousin Sylvia, two very young children, are left at home in Willoughby Hall while their parents travel overseas. This week's films. To isolate one particular offender, it’s amazing how Jane Horrocks - star also of Getting It Right - manages to be so irritating given the tininess of her role as a maid, but every scene she’s in she manages to screw up her face or nod her head in that “look at me” manner you generally only see in very poor school plays, and skilled old pros like Mel Smith, Geraldine James and Richard O’Brien manage to be just as annoying with large and ill-formed parts. 1989. Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Geraldine James, Richard O’Brien. Bonnie lives in a beautiful mansion in the country. Films with period settings, comically overbearing villains, clean and virtuous junior heroes, a few slightly scary bits, plenty of sobbing and suffering and a rosily ecstatic last five minutes? News arrives that Lord and Lady Willoughby are missing and an evil looking governess suddenly arrives at the hall… (1989) Two girls (Aleks Darowska, Emily Hudson) flee wolves, a workhouse, and a governess (Stephanie Beacham) and her cohort in Industrial Revolution England... Press right or left arrow to review items in this list. Become a member to write your own review. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase is a children's novel by Joan Aiken, first published in 1963.Set in an alternate history of England, it tells of the adventures of cousins Bonnie and Sylvia and their friend Simon the goose-boy as they thwart the evil schemes of their governess Miss Slighcarp.. In it, a pair of children are holed up in a remote mansion in a snowy locale surrounded by the titular wolves. THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE has enough disturbing gothic imagery to provide younger children with plenty of material for nightmares. Submit Corrections. Featuring. Audience Reviews for The Wolves of Willoughby Chase Jun 30, 2007 If Richard O Brian's in a film it's bound to be worth watching in some way. Film, Family and kids. THE WOLVES OF WILLOUGHBY CHASE is based on a story by the great and spooky children's author Joan Aiken. Directed by Stuart Orme. Movie Details. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. I was first introduced to The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase through the 1989 British-made film of the same name starring Stephanie Beacham (Miss Slighcarp), Mel Smith (Mr. Grimshaw), Emily Hudson (Bonnie), and Aleks Darowska (Sylvia). This "dramatic gothic adventure" was Aiken's first book in the Wolves Chronicles, and was adapted into a film staring Stephanie Beacham, Mel Smith, Richard O'Brien, and Jane Horrocks in 1989. The Wolves of Willoughby Chase. Amazon's Choice recommends highly rated and well-priced products. Production Companies: Atlantic Entertainment Group, Zenith Entertainment. The Wolves Of Willoughby Chase. Press enter to select. However, the rest of the movie is disastrously somnolent. UnknownUsers Submitted on 14/12/2002 21:32 ... Film search. 18 January 1988 See also. Although this adaptation is quite faithful to the novel, some characters are omitted (such as Dr. Gabriel Field), others are altered (Mrs. Brisket's daughter Diana is ch… A pack of wolves runs around the countryside trying to maul every human they see, and there are bleak and brutal scenes of an orphan work house straight out of darkest Dickens, to say nothing of rats, intense chase scenes, and cartoonishly evil bad … The wolves, incidentally, are big dogs dressed up in ratty fur coats by Julien Temple’s sister (it’s a fact!!) It puts one foot right with the production/costume design, as it creates an imaginary 19th Century Britain ruled by King James III and overrun by wolves, and another in the general area with the casting of Stephanie Beacham - best known for The Colbys, although we remember her as a dolly bird in Dracula AD 1972, House Of Mortal Sin and Inseminoid - as Letitia Slighcarp, the wicked governess who takes over Willoughby Chase and makes things rotten for the precocious Bonnie and Sylvia. Tweet. The Beachcomber. More information. by Joanna Berry Based on Joan Aiken's children's novel, this is a fun if slightly disappointing romp set in a snowy Yorkshire overrun by wolves during the Industrial Revolution. Biopic [feature] Satire Musical Drama Black Comedy Period Film Sports Drama. Edit. When news arrives that the Willoughby s are missing, Miss Slightcarp banishes the children to a workhouse, and dismisses all but two, James (Richard O Brien) and Pattern (Jane Horrocks), of the servants. This dark and atmospheric fantasy sees Lord and Lady Willoughby heading overseas - leaving their daughter Bonnie (Emily Hudson) and her orphaned cousin Sylvia (Aleks Darowska) left in the care of the children’s new governess: the sinister Miss Slightcarp (Stephanie Beacham). The Wolves of Willoughby Chase: The Wolves Chronicles #1 ''Now a Compelling Film'' 1968, Puffin Book published by the Penguin Group Paperback in English - First Puffin ed. Sale price The Wolves of Willoughby Chase (Region 1) Color. Showing all 2 items Jump to: Filming Locations (1) Filming Dates (1) Filming Locations. Read The Wolves of Willoughby Chase reviews from parents on Common Sense Media. 'Wolves' is best read by kids who love to feel a bit of self-pity and delicious horror. Film details. Set in an imagined 19th century England, in a perilous, snowy version of England, cousins Bonnie and Sylvia must work together to save the household from the devious plans of their evil guardian, Miss Slighcarp. 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