The Boy Who Turned Yellow (1972) - extract

An extract from the splendidly eccentric final collaboration of eminent filmmaking duo Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. One of three family films featured on the forthcoming DVD, ’The Children’s Film Foundation Collection: Weird Adventures’, released by the BFI on 17 June 2013 - London schoolboy John Saunders turns bright yellow after losing his pet mouse on a school trip. Is the mysterious colour change the result of an alien invasion or does the answer lie closer to hom