Young Jimmy Adams' eye falls on a charming old property called Clover Cottage and wonders how he's going to raise the money to buy it. Today he'd have to rob a bank, but fortunately instead finds a rhyme leading him to the family treasure. Also after it is a crabby old antiquarian bookseller named Wilson; and with all that water about you know where he's going to end up.
The Children's Film Foundation this time travelled to picturesque rural Essex ravishingly recorded by cameraman Jimmy Evins basking in glorious summer weather. But evidently without lugging along sound equipment; since the whole thing has clearly been post-synced, the dialogue added later (including a few interior monologues) along with a noisy score by Jack Beaver.
The Children's Film Foundation this time travelled to picturesque rural Essex ravishingly recorded by cameraman Jimmy Evins basking in glorious summer weather. But evidently without lugging along sound equipment; since the whole thing has clearly been post-synced, the dialogue added later (including a few interior monologues) along with a noisy score by Jack Beaver.
