Framed by occasional Pirandellian asides featuring Patrick Curwen as 'The Author' at work on the plot as it progresses, this is the sort of nonsense that would soon be churned out on a regular basis by the Children's Film Foundation, filmed on location around Chichester by veteran documentary cameraman Jo Jago with obviously postsynched dialogue and to the accompaniment of a sometimes distractingly florid musical score by Kennedy Russell.
The three Artemus Boys are depicted seemingly emerging from the sea, to which they apparently return at the end having saved England from a ray capable of shooting down airplanes and which has attracted the interest of the usual gang of oafs led by a pompous Boss in two-tone shoes who affects a drawling English accent, but we are told comes from a sinister Foreign Power and ran a concentration camp during the war.
Leading lady Terry Randall (fetchingly attired for the most part in riding gear) died only two years at the ripe old age of a hundred in an old folks home in Hastings; while TV veteran Michael Aldridge gives an atrocious performance in his feature film debut as the Handsome Hero. The actor most likely to be familiar to connoisseurs of British cinema of yesteryear is Will Hay veteran Peter Gawthorne as the Scotland Yard official, who introduces a hitherto unsuspected element of science fiction into the proceedings when he informs the hero just what it is the gang are after.
The three Artemus Boys are depicted seemingly emerging from the sea, to which they apparently return at the end having saved England from a ray capable of shooting down airplanes and which has attracted the interest of the usual gang of oafs led by a pompous Boss in two-tone shoes who affects a drawling English accent, but we are told comes from a sinister Foreign Power and ran a concentration camp during the war.
Leading lady Terry Randall (fetchingly attired for the most part in riding gear) died only two years at the ripe old age of a hundred in an old folks home in Hastings; while TV veteran Michael Aldridge gives an atrocious performance in his feature film debut as the Handsome Hero. The actor most likely to be familiar to connoisseurs of British cinema of yesteryear is Will Hay veteran Peter Gawthorne as the Scotland Yard official, who introduces a hitherto unsuspected element of science fiction into the proceedings when he informs the hero just what it is the gang are after.