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Financed by the Children's Film and Television foundation of England, Out of the Darkness is a 68-minute filmization of John Hoyland's novel The Ivy Garland. Three rural British children are visited by the spectre of a 17th-century lad (Anthony Winder). While most of the local adults don't believe the children, the town's museum keeper (Michael Carter) decides that there's some substance to the tale. He learns that the ghost is that of a boy from a plague-ridden village who was lynched by the townsfolk for fear that he would spread the disease. In unearthing this fact, the modern-day children and villagers are given the opportunity to free themselves from a curse that has hung over their community for nearly three hundred years. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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- Starring:
- Michael Carter, Anthony Winder, (more)