The Railway Children ... is this right?

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We have just watched the end of the film... it seems others know what Bobbie doesn't about her father. So the family weren't told he was released? Or did the mother know?

New Year brain! Trivial I know.

The mother must have known, surely.

That's the impression I always got.

The mother didn’t seem to know. I think the father chose to surprise them. Everyone else knew from the papers, but they hadn’t seen. At least, that was my interpretation!

I think it was a surprise. I don't think mum had a daily paper. The ending always makes me cry.

The mother hadn’t seen the newspaper.

That was the thing - if whatever the department of justice was back then would have been in contact with her. Letters from him or a lawyer - who knows! It is only a children's book I know.
Had not watched it in years.

None of them knew. But in the end of the book Bobbie does take the other children away so that the parents can be alone together, just like in the film. Not the ending you’d have in 2018 but very Edwardian.

Have just recovered from my sobbing.

No one knew . Love that film the ending 😭

I have a heart of stone , the ‘Daddy, my Daddy’ doesn’t make me emotional at all.

It doesn't make me emotional either, and I cry at everything, but the Russian in the book does.

I hardly ever cry but some films 😭
ET was on before and the end of that gets me too 😭

the original film is my very fave film of all time

You are all aliens with evil for souls

I love it too.

I think it's the way it all seems like a dream. I love the scene where it's Bobbie's birthday and they are all waiting for her in the living room. She's so thrilled and it all seems like magic.

I always cry at the end and just have.

However this time round I was struck how Bobby spent most of the film wandering around bewailing how poor they were to people who were much more poor than they were

DH and I don't know how we failed to notice this before. They could have been a lot less poor if they hadn't been hung up on being middle class poor in a giant house they couldn't afford to heat, with a servant, and large bills on ribbons and Christmas baubles.

Loved the bit where they tell random man on the train they are poor so he organizes them some emergency jars of pineapples

“My daddy it’s my daddy” makes me absolutely ball my eyes out!

DD (20m) totters round after DH going 'Daddy, my Daddy' - he loves it. Mind you she also does it to FIL and BIL.

How odd! On my tv it ended when the ‘hound’ was being looked after. The children heard a voice and said “ That’s not the doctor” then Bobbie held up a board saying The End. I was so disappointed as I love the end.
It was odd to see Sister Julienne from CTM in Bobbie’s face.

I still find it amazing to think that 11yo Phyllis was played by a 20yo Sally Thomsett.

ANother heart of stone here, it doesn't make me cry. I don't think any of them knew.

I just assumed that the writers were being true to the social standards of the day
Children weren’t told much about anything I think. Bobbi doesn’t know her fathers in prison until she finds a newspaper - clearly the mother knew
The film suggests the family didn’t know that he would be released until he was almost home
The train guard tells Bobbi if I remember correctly which is why she was at the station