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Synopsis: On holiday with their mother in the Lake District in 1929 four children are allowed to sail over to the nearby island in their boat Swallow and set up camp for a few days. They soon realise this has been the territory of two other girls who sail the Amazon, and the scene is set for serious rivalry.
 
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1974
92 min
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Ooh, sorry.

We can begin our chart tomorrow,

and put on it everything we discover.

We'll invent our own names.

[John:
]

Of course we will.

Roger, eat your apple.

Must I?

Yes, Mother says we must eat plenty of

green things or else we'll all get scurvy.

What is scurvy?

Sailors die from it like flies.

Are you all right?

Susan, Titty?

[Titty:
]

Aye aye, sir!

ls the boy all right?

[John:
]

He's all right, Mr Mate.

You ready for lights out yet?

Yes!

Lights out.

Good night.

[Roger:
]

Good night.

[Birds chirping]

[Titty:
]

Hello.

Hello.

Where's Susan?

[Titty:
]

Asleep.

[John:
]

No, she isn't.

And she's going bathing.

[Susan:
]

Time to get the milk, John.

[Orchestral music]

[Roger:
]

It's cold.

[Susan:
]

No, it isn't, it's lovely.

Don't just splash, swim.

[Cows mooing]

[Dog barking]

[Woman:
]

Mind now.

If there's anything else you want,

don't be afraid to come and ask for it.

[Man:
]

Grand weather we're having.

Shoo. You just get those dirty boots

out of my clean dairy.

Ooh.

I've had a good morning.

Here, you want some?

- Tobacco?

- No, bless you.

Bait for when you go fishing.

Good bit of perch down by the weeds.

How far down is your hook, Susan?

Just about as far

as my float will let me.

Mine's only three feet down.

That's no good.

lt should be about a foot from the bottom.

Reel it in

and I'll push your float up for you.

John, your float's gone!

It's a shark!

It's a shark!

- It's a shark! It's a shark!

- Pull!

- Pull it hard!

- Go on, pull it in!

Go on!

Pull! - Pull!

- Pull!

Do you think it's really safe

to bathe in this place?

[Susan:
]

I wouldn't like to be a fish.

[Roger:
] But I'd like to be

a fish swimming underwater.

[Titty:
]

You'll be like that soon.

It'll have to be,

Arctic

for the north

and Antarctic

for the south.

What shall we call the town?

[Titty:
]

Why not Rio?

[Roger:
]

Why Rio?

Because of the song.

"Away to Rio".

What about

the bay where we fished?

Dixon's Bay.

It's very near the farm.

No, Shark Bay

because of Roger's great fish.

[John:
] What shall we call the place

where we saw the houseboat?

In this bay here.

[Titty:
]

Houseboat Bay.

[John:
]

Hm.

I wonder if the retired pirate

is working on his treasure charts.

[Typing]

[Roger:
] Do you think

he's the only retired pirate on board?

[Titty:
]

Oh, maybe others below deck.

Slaves he gets to do all the dirty work.

He has an easy life, I bet.

[Bang]

[Parrot squawks]

[John:
]

Come on!

[Dog barking]

[Titty:
] He must have fired his cannon.

[Susan:
] Look over there!

[Roger:
] Who are those two boys?

[John:
] Get down. They may be enemies.

[Roger:
]

Ow!

They're pirates.

[Roger:
]

Let's chase them.

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Arthur Ransome

Arthur Michell Ransome (18 January 1884 – 3 June 1967) was an English author and journalist. He is best known for writing the Swallows and Amazons series of children's books about the school-holiday adventures of children, mostly in the Lake District and the Norfolk Broads. The books remain popular and "Swallows and Amazons" is the basis for a tourist industry around Windermere and Coniston Water, the two lakes Ransome adapted as his fictional North Country lake. He also wrote about the literary life of London, and about Russia before, during, and after the revolutions of 1917. His connection with the leaders of the Revolution led to him providing information to the Secret Intelligence Service while he was also suspected of being a Soviet spy by MI5. more…

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