• Film

The Kidnappers

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Time Out says

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.

Release Details

  • Duration:95 mins

Cast and crew

  • Director:Philip Leacock
  • Screenwriter:Neil Paterson
  • Cast:
    • Duncan Macrae
    • Jean Anderson
    • Adrienne Corri
    • Theodore Bikel
    • Jon Whiteley
    • Vincent Winter
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