• Director(s)

    Frank Godwin

  • Production Year

    1979

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    56m

  • Cast

    Gordon Hagen, Paul Atlantis, Christian Bullock

Film

The Boy Who Never Was

mild threat, violence

THE BOY WHO NEVER WAS is a British children's drama, from 1980, in which a gang of assassins use a lookalike of a diplomat's son to deliver a bomb to an ambassador. …

THE BOY WHO NEVER WAS is a British children's drama, from 1980, in which a gang of assassins use a lookalike of a diplomat's son to deliver a bomb to an ambassador.

violence
A boy is hit by an assassin, and another child is drugged. A man is hit from behind and dragged across the floor. A boy declares that his father will break every bone in his body if he finds out he has been naughty.
threat and horror
There are moments of mild threat in which a child is made to carry a live bomb. A gang chase children and threaten them with violence. Characters are tied up and gagged. A man makes a bomb and there are explosions after bombs are detonated.

  • Director(s)

    Frank Godwin

  • Production Year

    1979

  • Genre(s)

    Drama

  • Approx. running minutes

    56m

  • Cast

    Gordon Hagen, Paul Atlantis, Christian Bullock

Classified Date:
29/10/1979
Version:
2D
Use:
Cinema
Distributor:
Children's Film Foundation
mild threat, violence
Classified Date:
15/04/2024
Version:
2D
Use:
Physical media + VOD/Streaming
Distributor:
BFI Video
violence
A boy is hit by an assassin, and another child is drugged. A man is hit from behind and dragged across the floor. A boy declares that his father will break every bone in his body if he finds out he has been naughty.
threat and horror
There are moments of mild threat in which a child is made to carry a live bomb. A gang chase children and threaten them with violence. Characters are tied up and gagged. A man makes a bomb and there are explosions after bombs are detonated.

  • Classified date

    15/04/2024