Swallows and Amazons (1974)
- Directed by
- Claude Whatham
- Genre
- children's film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 32m
- Rated
- U
- Rating
- 7.5 of 10 from 21 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
In the 1930s, two groups of children spend a summer camping and sailing on a lake in the English Lake District. They pretend to be pirates and have a series of friendly adventures.
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What happens
Swallows and Amazons is a 1974 British film adaptation of the 1930 novel of the same name by Arthur Ransome. The film, which was directed by Claude Whatham and produced by Richard Pilbrow, starred Virginia McKenna and Ronald Fraser, with Zanna Hamilton. Its budget was provided by Nat Cohen of EMI Films who had funded the successful 1970 film The Railway Children. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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