CHRISTMAS GHOST STORIES # 1 - WHISTLE AND I'LL COME TO YOU (1968)
DIRECTED & WRITTEN by Jonathan Miller based on the short story "Oh Whistle and I'll Come To You My Lad" by M.R. James. STARRING - Michael Horden as Professor Parkin, Ambrose Coghill as The Colonel, George Woodbridge as Hotel proprietor, Nora Gordon as the Proprietess. PLOT - Whilst taking a winter holiday in coastal Norfolk, Professor Parkin - a crusty old Cambridge academic - finds an ancient graveyard perched on the edge of an eroding cliff. Upon investigating one of the partially exposed clifftop graves he discovers what appears to be an old whistle made of bone with a strange inscription upon it. Pocketing the whistle he walks back to his hotel but has the strangest feeling that somebody or something is following him... Arriving back at the hotel, Parkin translates the inscription - "Quis Est Iste Qui Venit" as "Who is this who is coming ?" Parkin blows the whistle but it appears to make no sound. From this point on Parkin is plagued by nig
