Whistle Down the Wind (film)

Whistle Down the Wind
Directed byBryan Forbes
Screenplay byKeith Waterhouse
Willis Hall
Based onWhistle Down the Wind
by Mary Hayley Bell
Produced byRichard Attenborough
StarringHayley Mills
Bernard Lee
Alan Bates
CinematographyArthur Ibbetson
Edited byMax Benedict
Music byMalcolm Arnold
Production
companies
Beaver Pictures
Allied Film Makers
Distributed byJ. Arthur Rank Film Distributors
Release date
  • 20 July 1961 (1961-07-20) (London)
Running time
99 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
Budget£148,000[1]

Whistle Down the Wind is a 1961 British crime drama film directed by Bryan Forbes and starring Hayley Mills, Bernard Lee and Alan Bates.[2] It was adapted by Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall from the 1958 novel of the same name by Mary Hayley Bell.

In 2005, the British Film Institute included it in its list of the 50 films that children should see by the age of 14.

  1. ^ Alexander Walker, Hollywood, England, Stein and Day, 1974 p. 106
  2. ^ "Whistle Down the Wind". British Film Institute Collections Search. Retrieved 19 August 2024.