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Whistle And I'll Come To You
Whistle and I'll Come to You may refer to: * Whistle and I'll Come to You (1968 film), a supernatural short television film * Whistle and I'll Come to You (2010 film), a short film, part of the British supernatural anthology series A Ghost Story for Christmas See also * 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad', a ghost story by British writer M. R. James * Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad, the title and refrain of a poem and song by Robert Burns {{dab ...
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Whistle And I'll Come To You (1968 Film)
''Whistle and I'll Come to You'' is a supernatural short television film which aired as an episode of the British documentary series '' Omnibus''.David Kerekes, ''Creeping Flesh: The Horror Fantasy Film Book''. London: Headpress, 2003. . 42–44. Written and directed by Jonathan Miller, it is based on the ghost story 'Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad' by M. R. James, first published in the collection ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'' (1904), and first aired on BBC1 on 7 May 1968. It stars Michael Hordern as Prof. Parkin, a Cambridge academic who, whilst on holiday at a coastal East Anglian village, finds a strange whistle whilst exploring a Knights Templar cemetery exposed by coastal erosion. When blown, the whistle unleashes a frightening supernatural force. Its success directly inspired Lawrence Gordon Clark to create the supernatural anthology series ''A Ghost Story for Christmas'', which based the majority of its episodes on James stories. The series would produc ...
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Whistle And I'll Come To You (2010 Film)
''Whistle and I'll Come to You'' is a short film which is part of the British supernatural anthology series ''A Ghost Story for Christmas''. Written by Neil Cross, produced by Claire Armspach, and directed by Andy De Emmony, it is based on the ghost story of the same name by M. R. James, first published in the collection ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'' (1904), and first aired on BBC Two on 24 December 2010.Press Release
''BBC Press Office'', 10 October 2010.
At 52 minutes it is the longest entry in the series' history. It stars as James Parkin, an introverted academic who goes on a
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'Oh, Whistle, And I'll Come To You, My Lad'
"Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad" is a ghost story by British writer M. R. James, included in his collection ''Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'' (1904). The story is named after a 1793 Oh, whistle and I'll come to you, my lad, poem of the same name penned by Robert Burns. Plot Parkins, the protagonist, is a young "Professor of wikt:ontography, Ontography" at the University of Cambridge, who when the story opens is about to embark on a golfing holiday at the town of Burnstow (a fictionalized version of Felixstowe, Suffolk), on the east coast of England. He has secured a room at the Globe Inn for the duration of his stay, though he is somewhat uncomfortable that the room will contain a second bed. At dinner in his College, an archaeological colleague asks him to investigate the grounds of a ruined Knights Templar preceptory near the Globe, with a view to its suitability for a dig. On his first day at Burnstow, after a round of golf with Colonel Wilson, another guest at the ...
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