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Run Wild, Run Free [1969]

Starring: John Mills, Mark Lester, Gordon Jackson, Fiona Fullerton, Sylvia Syms
Director: Richard C. Sarafian
Format: PAL
Released: 04 Mar 1996
RRP: £4.99
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Run Wild Run Free - By: C. Hill, 12 Sep 2006
One year after the blockbuster Oliver, Mark Lester is given this role as a boy who is mute or has lost the ability to speak since birth. Distanced from his parents (a mother who is unable to love him & a father who has lost patience) the boy befriends a white horse on the moors & follows it everywhere. John Mills encourages the young boy & becomes a fatherly figure showing him the beautiful wild countryside & moors & the animals that live there. Watch out for a young Fiona Fullerton. The film reallly plods along apart from one or two incidents before it builds to a climax where the horse fallls into a bog & they struggle to pull it out, the young boy shocked & upset saves the day by uttering the horses name & shouts for it to get up. Reallly it was a platform to further Mark Lesters career on the coat-tails of Oliver. Playing a virtuallly mute child reallly went to prove his lack of acting skills, & his inability to either remember or put more than 3 or 4 sentences together. As in Oliver he only had a few lines & his singing voice in Oliver was actuallly a girls dubbed over his own.
WONDERFULL - By: L. COSTA, 22 Jul 2004
MARK LESTER, THE YOUNG STAR OF " OLIVER ", IN A SPECTACULAR DRAMA.