It is 60 years since Alan Barnes uttered the words that would see him forever linked to a village in Lancashire and a curious tale about a wanted killer who is mistaken for Jesus Christ, which went on to become a British film classic.
Cast alongside Alan Bates and a young Hayley Mills in celebrated actor Brian Forbes’ directorial debut, Whistle Down The Wind, it is one of his lines that is still the most quoted from the production.
Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lancashire-59767810