I strongly remember this opening scene to John Boorman’s autobiographical 1987 film Hope and Glory, of young Bill playing down at rockery and flowerbed garden level with toy knights. This is how I spent much of my childhood.
Suddenly Bill notices that it all goes quite of a Sunday morning. The lawn mowers stop.
It’s Sunday 3rd September 1939.
All the adults go through inside to listen to the radio – Neville Chamberlain’s famous and now familiar declaration of war that “I have to tell you now that no such undertaking has been received, and that consequently this country is at war with Germany.“
A trailer can be seen with this scene on the IMDB website https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093209/videoplayer/vi2135144473?ref_=tt_ov_vi
I’m not sure of the make or manufacturer of the knight on horseback, but it looks old fashioned enough. Plastic? Metal? The wizard looks more modern and I think is a nod towards John Boorman’s Arthurian epic 1981 film Excalibur.
Life as it should be lived at ground level …
https://poundstoreplasticwarriors.wordpress.com/2016/09/14/garden-wargames-1/
Blog posted by Mark Man of TIN, 10 December 2019
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