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Title: KIDNAPPERS, the

Reference number: 3637

Date: 1953

Director: d. Philip Leacock

Sponsor: J. Arthur Rank

Production company: Nolbandov - Parkyn

Sound: sound

Original format: 35mm

Certificate: U

Colour: bw

Fiction: fiction

Running time: 90.00 mins

Description: A story of a Scots settlement in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia centring around the tale of two orphan boys sent to the province and into the care of their stern grandfather played by Duncan Macrae. They long for a pet dog and when, in the woods, they discover not a dog but a baby, they decide that this must be their pet. The film although portraying Nova Scotia was actually shot in Scotland in both Glen Affric and Glen Moriston.

alt. title in USA THE LITTLE KIDNAPPERS.

The film, although portraying Nova Scotia, was actually shot in Scotland in both Glen Affric and Glen Moriston.

Credits: The J. Arthur Rank Organisation presents THE KIDNAPPERS by Neil Paterson
with Duncan Macrae, Jean Anderson, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri, and John Whiteley as Harry Vincent Winter as Davy, Christopher Beeny, Jameson Clark, Howard Connell, John Rae, Jack Stewart, James Sutherland, Francis De Wolff, Eric Woodburn,

screenplay Neil Paterson
d. ph. Eric Cross
art. d. Edward Carrick
p. man. Roy Goddard
film ed. John Trumper.
Children coached by Margaret Thomson
p. controller for Pinewood Studios, London, England, Arthur Alcott.
m. composed by Bruce Montgomery
m.p. The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra cond. Muir Mathieson
ass. d. George Pollock
cam. op. Jack Atcheler
dress designer Joan Ellacott
make-up Geoffrey Rodway
hairdressing Pearl Orton
sd.rec. Sydney Wiles Gordon K. McCallum cont. Tilly Day
p. Sergei Nolbandov and Leslie Parkyn.

Shotlist: A story of a Scots settlement in the Canadian Province of Nova Scotia centring around the tale of two orphan boys sent to the province and into the care of their stern grandfather played by Duncan Macrae. They long for a pet dog and when, in the woods, they discover not a dog but a baby, they decide that this must be their pet. The film although portraying Nova Scotia was actually shot in Scotland in both Glen Affric and Glen Moriston (90.00)