I would agree with other reviews that there is a lot of charm in a film which portrays the simple, easy-going childhood of the mid-'60s, and the acting of the children is fine. John Moulder-Brown is always worth ewatching, and he makes a good gang bully here. BUT there are annoyances: the "Gus is an uncle" chant goes on too long and in too many scenes. The kids would have tired of it as the summer hols wore on. I didn't think the interpolated action from comics quite worked, nor the applied soundtrack of real fire-arms when the cap-gun games were taking place. Most improbable was that none of the kids (or their parents) had West Country accents, given the Devon settings. And that goof? The shop-keeper's name is Ream, but on the brass plate of his coffin the name is spelt Reams.
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