The cinema release of Swallows And Amazons will likely evoke many memories of childhood adventures. Chris Wiltshire visits film locations in the Lake District and proves you’re never too old to enjoy Arthur Ransome’s classic tale.
The added action does also give the film a bit more vim and vigour than the overly genteel 1974 screen Swallows and Amazons , long a stalwart of holiday TV schedules.
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Swallows and Amazons started principal filming in the Lake District in June 2015. The team shot mainly in Yorkshire and the Lake District with two days in Scotland, which was used for the seaplane.
A Somerset sailing club has found itself at the centre of Hollywood blockbuster Swallows and Amazons after teaching one of its stars to take to the water.
Adapted from Arthur Ransom’s 1930 novel, this pre-WWII adventure sees four kids come up against Russian spies during their holiday in the Lake District.
Kelly Macdonald starring as Mrs Walker, Andrew Scott as Lazlov and me, Sophie Neville, as a dithering lady in a hat and rusty-coloured jacket getting into the steam train behind Roger at Portsmouth Station. Blink and you’ll miss me. So …
Swallows and Amazons , originally published in 1930, tells the story of the Walker children, whose summer holiday in the Lake District sees them sailing their boat ‘Swallow’ to a local island, only to find themselves up against a couple of girls who …
In the set of Swallows and Amazons there is, appropriately enough, water, water everywhere – only not in the right places.
Swallows and Amazons will be directed by Call the Midwife’s Philippa Lowthorpe. The cast also includes Rafe Spall (Black Mirror), Gwendoline Christie (Game of Thrones), Kelly Macdonald (Boardwalk Empire) and Jessica Hynes (W1A).