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The Glitterball

BFI titles • Kids and Family, Sci-Fi, UR

This ingeniously small-scale sci-fi adventure of a tiny, shiny alien ball-being with strange powers and a taste for electricity, crisps and custard, was released the same year as Star Wars, and foreshadows E.T., but was made for just a fraction of the cost of either. It was produced for The Children’s Film Foundation, makers of intelligent, fun films for British kids, from the 1950s to the 1980s.

Tags
Unidentified Flying Objects, Aliens
Cast
Ben Buckton Max Fielding
Keith Jayne Pete
Ronald Pember George "Filthy" Potter
Crew
Harley Cokliss director

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