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A Swarm in May (1983)
Directed by Colin Finbow
Drama · 1h 17m
John Owen returns to the Choir School at the start of term to find that he is the youngest Singing Boy in the school. This means he must also be Beekeeper - a traditional role. One of the traditional duties of the Beekeeper is to sing a solo in the Cathedral. Owen hates and dreads the prospect, so he persuades the smallest boy in the school, Iddingley, to take his place. Then, while exploring one of the Cathedral towers without permission, Owen finds something which makes him change his mind, and solves a mystery which has been baffling people for hundreds of years...
Cast
Frank Middlemass
Dr. Sunderland
O
Oliver Hicks
John Owen
Jack May
Mr. Ardent - the Headmaster
Milo Twomey
Trevitihic
R
Rory Macfarquhar
Iddingley
P
Peter Cosmetatos
Madington
J
James Mills
Dubnet
P
Petra Davies
Mrs. Owen
H
Hugh Hastings
Turle
C
Charles Lewsen
Mr. Sutton
D
Douglas Storm
Bishop
O
Oswin Baker
Crew
- Director
- Colin Finbow
- Writer
- Colin Finbow, William Mayne
- Novel
- William Mayne
- Director of Photography
- Andrew Fleury
- Producer
- Brianne Perkins
Details
- Release date
- 1983-12-26
- Runtime
- 1h 17m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Children's Film Unit