Swallows And Amazons (DVD)

Being brought up on Enid Blyton and Arthur Ransome stories I was very excited when I heard of this film a couple of years ago. A very gentle film, this takes me right back to my childhood in the countryside that sometimes feels like another world. I watch this whenever I want to return to a more innocent time, a time when adventures meant camping out overnight in homemade tents and cooking over a campfire The Walker children go on holiday with their mother, an ethereal looking Virginia McKenna, to the beauties of the Lake District. Serious minded John is to be captain, with sensible Susan as first mate, the delightfully fey Titty (no don’t laugh; it used to be ...  Read the complete review