
December 7, 1927 · 98 years old
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Claude Whatham (born 7 December 1927 in Manchester - died 4 January 2008) was an English Film and television director mainly known for his work on dramas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Claude Whatham, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contr…

Set in 1929, and based upon Arthur Ransome's immortal children's novel, "Swallows and Amazons" is the story of a group of children who man two sailing dinghies,'Swallow' and 'Amazon', and plan mock 'sea-battles'.

An American computer expert meets a distraught old lady on a train and she tells him that a homicidal maniac is stalking her quiet little village.

A semi-autobiographical coming-of-age story set in the Cotswolds during and immediately after the First World War.