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The Little Kidnappers(Movie, 1990)

1h 32min | Genres: TV Movie, Crime, Drama
The Little KidnappersRating: 2.4/5 (with 33 votes)
The Little Kidnappers is a 1990 Canadian/American television film made by Testar Productions, Margellos-Resnick and Jones 21st Century for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Disney Channel. It tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie (Leo Wheatley and Charles Miller), who are sent to live with their stern grandfather, James MacKenzie (Charlton Heston). Based on the short story "Scotch Settlement" by Neil Paterson (previously filmed in 1953), set in Nova Scotia in 1903, the film was shot in several locations throughout Nova Scotia with dockside scenes being filmed aboard the CSS Acadia at the Maritime Museum of the Atlantic in Halifax. ()
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About The Little Kidnappers

Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...

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Additional Information

Production country: Canada
Shot in: Nova Scotia
Original language: English (EN)
Spoken languages: English (EN)
Translated into 9 languages: German (DE), English (EN), French (FR), Hungarian (HU), Dutch (NL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Ukrainian (UK), Chinese (Mandarin) (ZH)
Status: Released
Release date US: 08/17/1990
Director: Donald Shebib
Composer: Mark Snow
Alternative titles in other countries (from previews, ads etc.):
"A kis gyerekrablók"
"De små kidnapparna"
Keywords: canada, beach, orphan, baby

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:140639, Added: 03/29/2018, Last updated: 04/22/2024