THE TREASURE SEEKERS is a workable TV movie adaptation of the Edith Nesbit novel, about a gang of bored kids who get up to mischief when they decide to try to help their inventor father fund his newest creation - a refrigeration unit. To this end they go around digging up the area in a hunt for buried treasure, as well as approaching local loan sharks and attempting to find work.
This production has a relaxed, mid-1990s look and feel to it, similar to the BBC adaptation of FIVE CHILDREN AND IT. The child actors acquit themselves well with their roles with only the occasional bit of overacting threatening to spoil things. Two of them, Keira Knightley and Felicity Jones, have gone on to success as adults in the craft. Cast-wise, the reliable Nicholas Farrell plays the affable father, and there are various old-timers in support including Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, and Ian Richardson.
This production has a relaxed, mid-1990s look and feel to it, similar to the BBC adaptation of FIVE CHILDREN AND IT. The child actors acquit themselves well with their roles with only the occasional bit of overacting threatening to spoil things. Two of them, Keira Knightley and Felicity Jones, have gone on to success as adults in the craft. Cast-wise, the reliable Nicholas Farrell plays the affable father, and there are various old-timers in support including Nigel Davenport, Donald Sinden, and Ian Richardson.