Another Lord Dunsany Story Filmed

"The Pirate of the Round Pond" by Lord Dunsany is not a story I would ever have expected to have been filmed. It was collected in The Little Tales of Smethers and Other Stories (1952)--if there was a previous publication, it has not been discovered. Hugh Greene reprinted it as the title story in his anthology The Pirate of the Round Pond and Other Strange Adventure Stories (1977). It is the story of three young boys who make a model pirate ship and sink other model boats at the Round Pond in Kensington Gardens.

In 2000 the story was made into a short (33 minutes) children's film, retitled The Pirates of Central Park, and reset  in New York City. Names are changed, but the essential story is kept intact. And so is the voice--the original story is narrated by one of the boys, and much of Dunsany's words are retained. The film features a young Jesse McCartney before his teen boy singing career. 

Dunsany's story is rather an uncharacteristic tale by its author, but its adaptation to a film works fairly well.  I saw it on YouTube (link here).