The Little Kidnappers (1953) on Netflix
Approved19531h 33mDramaFamilyRomance
Orphaned brothers Harry and Davy MacKenzie leave Scotland for their grandparents' Nova Scotia homestead, where their grandfather refuses them a dog. They find an abandoned baby and hide it.
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Plot summary
In the early 1900s, eight-year-old Harry and his five-year-old brother Davy MacKenzie lose their father in the Boer War and are sent from Scotland to a Scottish settlement in Nova Scotia, to the stern grandparents who will raise them. Their grandfather, Jim MacKenzie, allows the boys no dog. He is locked in a dispute with the Dutch settlers who have arrived since the Boer War, above all with Jan Hooft, over who owns a hill, and he ignores the ruling that gives it to Hooft. He also keeps a tight hold on his grown daughter Kirsty, who loves the local doctor, Willem Bloem. Harry and Davy find an abandoned baby and, afraid of their grandfather's anger, keep the child hidden in a lean-to shack.
Cast
- Vincent Winteras Davy - Jim's Grandson
- James Sutherlandas Arron McNab
- John Raeas Andrew McCleod
- Eric Woodburnas Sam Howie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Little Kidnappers (1953)
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- Leacock received a phone call asking to see J. Arthur Rank in person, and recalled a strange interview with a big man with a North Country accent who said he would go against the advice of his Board because he liked The Kidnappers, asking only that he bring in "the name of the Good Lord".
- Leacock recalled that Vincent Winter, who was from Aberdeen, could not read, "so he had to be firmly taught lines - he had a memory like a computer. He would do his own lines aloud and then silently mouth everyone else's words!"
- The film was released in the US as The Little Kidnappers due to United Artists' fear that audiences would be turned off a film about kidnapping.
