| Calamity the Cow | |
| Director: | David Eastman |
| Producer: | Ian Dalrymple |
| Editing: | Jack Drake |
| Starring: | John Moulder-Brown Elizabeth Dear Stephen Brown |
| Cinematography: | Bert Mason |
| Studio: | Children's Film Foundation |
| Runtime: | 55 minutes |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Language: | English |
Calamity the Cow is a 1967 British film directed by David Eastman and starring John Moulder-Brown and Elizabeth Dear. It was written by Eastman and Kerry Eastman and made for the Children's Film Foundation.[1] [2] The film featured Phil Collins as a teenage actor three years prior to his joining Genesis.
Farmer Grant's children get him to buy a cow from another farmer. The children work hard to make the cow fit and healthy enough for the show ring. But at the last minute the other farmer, Kincaid, steals Calamity.
The Monthly Film Bulletin wrote: "Against a background of village and farm-life, this children's film is filled out largely in terms of slapstick. The nicest touch is the Heath Robinson contraption which the children build from material they find in a junk-heap – an old bath and bits of a bedstead – to transport the cow to the show. The slapstick ranges from flying paint from a can on a revolving horn gramophone to the predictable but vigorous action of Calamity biffing the villainous Kincaid into a water trough. Fields and country lanes provide pleasant settings for an agreeable piece of children's entertainment."[3]