When a man in a sports car almost runs over Francesca Annis' cat, she grows alert to the driver's cat mania. Later, while mapping all the interesting things like gulls' nests near their seaside town, she, John Pike, and Jeremy Bulloch notice recurrences to the motif. This leads them and her indulgent uncle, John Stacy, to alert and help the coast guard thwart the Cat Gang, a bunch of smugglers.
Like other Children's Film Foundation shows, it's handsomely shot and edited, although I find the willingness of the authorities to put 15-year-olds at risk to be a trifle unlikely. In like manner, the youngsters seem to shout every line, betraying some unfortunate looping. It didn't affect their show business careers, John Pike's recorded career died out after about 1965, and Bulloch was a frequent actor in the Star Wars franchise. Miss Annis is still going strong at 75.
Like other Children's Film Foundation shows, it's handsomely shot and edited, although I find the willingness of the authorities to put 15-year-olds at risk to be a trifle unlikely. In like manner, the youngsters seem to shout every line, betraying some unfortunate looping. It didn't affect their show business careers, John Pike's recorded career died out after about 1965, and Bulloch was a frequent actor in the Star Wars franchise. Miss Annis is still going strong at 75.