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Bookmark this pageThe Kidnappers (1953)
Director: Philip Leacock
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From Time Out Film Guide
1904: two Scottish orphans are sent to live with their sternly Calvinist grandfather in Nova Scotia. Starved of affection, forbidden a pet dog, they appropriate a neighbour's baby and after gravely debating whether to name it Rover, they look after it most tenderly. After a flurry of melodrama, it all ends well. This children's classic (Neil Paterson adapting his own novella) is rather too self-consciously heart-warming, and it's hard to read the setting as Nova Scotia when the look is so Pinewood-esque. But cutting through all the artifice, fat-faced, five-year-old Vincent Winter seems pricelessly, artlessly unaffected.Author: BBa
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Cast & crew
Director: Philip Leacock
Producer: Sergei Nolbandov, Leslie Parkyn
Cast: Duncan Macrae, Jean Anderson, Adrienne Corri, Theodore Bikel, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter full cast
Duration: 95 mins
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