1972 - THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW Powell and Pressburger's final film

For their final film collaboration, Powell and Pressburger ended up directing a low budget children's film, THE BOY WHO TURNED YELLOW. A film about as quirky as anything they ever did in their prime. The story is about a young boy who loses his pet mouse on a field trip to the Tower of London with his school class. Riding in the subway on the way home, he and the entire subway are transformed in the color yellow. It turns out some yellow being from outer space who travels through
electrical currents is responsible.

The yellow guy gets around on a pair of ski's and has a flashing light on the top of his head. The boy persuades the yellow guy to sneak into the Tower of London in search of his pet mouse.

The boy is captured by the beefeaters (eating beef sandwiches) and condemned to having his head cut off on a chopping block.

Powell and Pressburger, eccentric to the end.

55 minutes.