The Flood

The water scenes look to have been filmed in Maldon Essex and the Blackwater estuary. The Thames Barges at Maldon quay are clearly visible along with the Port of registration "Maldon" on the stern of the launch the father hires to search for the children. There are a couple of islands in the Blackwater which would have been suitable, Osea and Northey .

Obviously one for the older kids, gracefully shot in the Fens in winter (with a striking shot retained in the final cut when mud accidentally splashes on the lens at one point).

The eldest of the children are both girls in jodhpurs who coolly take charge (including discussing how the pig is be killed for food). The usual pair of crooks are on this occasion "two hulking youths" in leather jackets; but despite being in the middle of a flood zone are spared the usual dunking, and one of them even rises to the occasion by laconically producing a cigarette lighter at a crucial moment.