The Magnet (1950)

The Magnet: Directed by Charles Frend. With Stephen Murray, Kay Walsh, James Fox, Meredith Edwards. A boy steals a powerful magnet from a younger boy and gets him into all sorts of trouble.

“This is a delightful film about a young boy growing up in a small riverside town,just across from Liverpool, in 1950.He experiences guilt after conning a younger boy out of a magnet and wrongly believing that this has lead to the other boyu0026#39;s death.Humour is provided by the boyu0026#39;s father a psychiatrist/psychologist who has a theory and an answer for everything, unfortunately these are usually wrong. Lots of nostalgia for those of us brought up at that time and place:New Brighton Pier and Lido;Mersey Ferry and Dockland Overhead Railway;Blitzed Area of Liverpool below Anglican Cathedral;Biscuits being delivered in large tin boxes.u003cbr/u003eu003cbr/u003eMost memorable scene:Liverpool/Chinese boy(played by Geoffrey Yin)- When his mother shouts at him in Chinese from a window,he turns to his friends and says u0026quot;Me mam sez Iu0026#39;ve gotta ave mi teau0026quot; …in a strong Liverpool accent.”