Ah, summer nostalgia! Revel in steam trains and sails and sheep, and remember, or wish you remembered, farm holidays and childhood freedom. Four siblings explore a Lake District island, suffer setbacks and discomforts and exhilarations as they find …
This new adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s novel evokes a long-lost era in which kids didn’t just spend their days searching for Pokémon or playing Call Of Duty.
If there is one thing guaranteed from bringing Arthur Ransome’s timeless literary classic Swallows and Amazons to the silver screen, it’s the engaging, enchanting narrative.
Arthur Ransome’s 1930 novel Swallows And Amazons is a beautiful hymn to childhood innocence, an ode to school holidays, playing pirates on sailing boats, pen knives, grazed knees and a curfew of tea-time.
SCHOOL’S out and it’s time to play. What better time to release Swallows And Amazons and inspire children to hunt pirates instead of Pokemon and enjoy traditional pleasures like campfires, sailing and spying on the neighbours.
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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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.
Keswick hosted the world premiere of the new film adaptation of Arthur Ransome’s classic Swallows and Amazons story about four children from the south coast who spend a summer holiday in the 1930s in the Lake District and have a set of adventures while camping in an island in the middle of a lake.