This type of story was very familiar in TV & book form back in the day, but it's handled in a completely charming way here. There are also various myths and legends associated with the place that he becomes involved in.
A young boy goes to stay in an old ancestral house over the Christmas break, and soon becomes aware that there are ghostly children from the Stuart era that he can sometimes see. THE CHILDREN OF GREEN KNOWE is short, simple entertainment. Thankfully, the film has just come out on DVD over here in the UK, so I was able to catch up with it as an adult and I wasn't disappointed. It was the bits in which inanimate objects come to life which really disturbed me, although even the rocking horse was spooky. I watched this live on TV in 1986 at the age of 5 and it scared the life out of me. I had the same experience, but with me it was THE CHILDREN OF GREEN KNOWE, a Children's BBC 4-part TV series adaptation of the 1950s novel by Lucy M. But what memories! James Trevelyan (Alexander Oldknowe)Ī lot of British kids have memories of watching the original run of DR WHO and being forced to hide behind the sofa because they were too scared to watch the screen.
Withnail declares in 'Withnail and I', 'Alas! I have little more than vintage wine and memories'. And after all these years, I still remember the lyrics of song I sing before the King and his court (by the way, the banquet that you will descry laid out was fireproofed, so no one was game to pick at it!):- Return, return you happy men/To your own blessed shades again/Lest staying long some new desire/In your cool bosom raise a fire/Like a perfumed gale o'er flowers/Now glide again to your own bowers Saw Polly Maberly in an episode of 'Frost' in early 2001, and she acquitted herself very well indeed. Danny went on to play Snorri the Miserable in Terry Gilliam's hilarious 'Erik the Viking' and also to portray a barrister in the 1992 thriller 'Under Suspicion', which starred Liam Neeson and Laura San Giacomo. Thanks heaps, Heather! Great too to work with the very talented Danny Schiller, who played Gabriel, the manic choirmaster. She noticed that I was reading Stephen King's awesome 1985 short story collection 'Skeleton Crew' during the making of the series, and recommended the work of acclaimed British horror author Ramsey Campbell. Also great to work with Heather Ramsay, who played my mother. She was a delightful lady, and I remember that we - myself and the other principal cast members - had our photograph taken with her.
Boston, who wrote the novel upon which the four-part series was based, and who also wrote 'The River at Green Knowe'. Perhaps the greatest thing about portraying Alexander Oldknowe in the 1986 BBC Children's Television series 'The Children of Green Knowe' was meeting Lucy M.
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