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The Kidnappers is a British film of genre Drama directed by Philip Leacock released in USA on 1 december 1953 with Jean Anderson
The Kidnappers (1953)
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Add to a movie listReleased in USA 1 december 1953
Length 1h33
Directed by Philip Leacock
OriginUnited-kingdom
Themes Films about children
Rating70%
The Little Kidnappers, billed as The Kidnappers in the UK, is a 1953 British film, directed by Philip Leacock and written by Neil Paterson.
Synopsis
In the 1900s, two young orphaned brothers, eight years old Harry (Jon Whiteley) and five years old Davy Mackenzie (Vincent Winter) are sent to live in a Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia, Canada, with their stern Grandaddy (Macrae) and Grandma (Anderson) after their father's death in the Boer War. The boys would love to have a dog but are not allowed, Grandaddy holding that "ye canna eat a dog". Then they find an abandoned baby. Living in fear of Grandaddy (he beats Harry, the older boy, for disobeying him), they conceal it from the adults. They see it as a kind of substitute for the dog they have been denied (Davy, the younger boy, asks his brother, "Shall we call the baby Rover, Harry?").Actors
Jean Anderson
(Grandma MacKenzie)
Vincent Winter
(Davy)
Adrienne Corri
(Kirsty)
Theodore Bikel
(Dr. Willem Bloem)
Francis De Wolff
(Jan Hooft Sr.)
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