Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.Two young orphans have to relocate to Nova Scotia and endure their bitter and jerky grandfather, but when they find a baby washed up on the beach, everything changes.
- Awards
- 7 nominations
Wally MacKinnon
- Militia captain
- (as Wally McKinnon)
Ewan 'Sudsy' Clark
- Searcher
- (as Ewan Clark)
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- TriviaIn the movie, Harry and Davy kidnap the "baby boy" of Hans Hooft (Tom Cameron mentions it is a boy at 1:03:00). Ironically, the baby boy is portrayed by a girl. This is the exact reverse of the 1953 film where the infant daughter who was kidnapped was portrayed by a boy.
- Goofs(at around 1h 8 mins) After the search has been called off due to a storm, the baby is lying on the floor of the cave mostly wrapped in a dark blanket with its right arm and shoulder and some of its left shoulder exposed and with a lit lantern hanging behind it on the wall of the cave. When the boys enter the cave with Granddaddy, the baby is completely wrapped in a lighter colored blanket, except for its face, and the lantern has extinguished and is standing at the baby's feet.
- Alternate versionsDistributor Feature Films for Families released an edited version on DVD in 2009 with an 87 minute 25 second runtime (1:27:25 on DVD players) even though its DVD case lists the runtime as "about 94 min".
- ConnectionsRemake of The Little Kidnappers (1953)
- SoundtracksWedding Dance Music
Arranged by The Barra MacNeils
Performed by The Barra MacNeils
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McKenzie Family Values
The Little Kidnappers has to be one of the best family viewing films I've seen in a very long time. What makes it so good is the performances of the two young boys Leo Wheatley and Charles Miller as the grandsons of family patriarch Charlton Heston who've come to turn of the last century Nova Scotia to live with him and their grandmother Patricia Gage and aunt Leah Pinsent after their parents died. Heston's son was killed in the Boer War and he has a vigorous dislike for those people.
Heston's a tough hard man who had tough hard life. We learn he wasn't good as a parent in many ways and looks like he hasn't learned anything.
The title comes from the fact that one of the boys finds a baby abandoned on the beach and they hide it in a cave and try to care for it in the best way children can. They don't want the infant to grow up as they just might under a stern parent as Heston has become.
Leah Pinsent has some issues as well. She's keeping company with Bruce Greenwood a recent Boer immigrant to Canada who's a doctor and she dare not let Heston find out.
The two boys really make this film. The adult players including Charlton Heston have a lot of trouble keeping up with them. They acted so natural like real kids instead of Hollywood kids that you see in so many films. The hardest heart in the world will melt with these two and Heston has just that in the film.
Topping it all off is some beautiful photography of Nova Scotia. The Little Kidnappers which is a remake of a Fifties British film is one of the best family films I've seen in a long time.
Heston's a tough hard man who had tough hard life. We learn he wasn't good as a parent in many ways and looks like he hasn't learned anything.
The title comes from the fact that one of the boys finds a baby abandoned on the beach and they hide it in a cave and try to care for it in the best way children can. They don't want the infant to grow up as they just might under a stern parent as Heston has become.
Leah Pinsent has some issues as well. She's keeping company with Bruce Greenwood a recent Boer immigrant to Canada who's a doctor and she dare not let Heston find out.
The two boys really make this film. The adult players including Charlton Heston have a lot of trouble keeping up with them. They acted so natural like real kids instead of Hollywood kids that you see in so many films. The hardest heart in the world will melt with these two and Heston has just that in the film.
Topping it all off is some beautiful photography of Nova Scotia. The Little Kidnappers which is a remake of a Fifties British film is one of the best family films I've seen in a long time.
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- Iona, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada(establishing shots)
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By what name was The Little Kidnappers (1990) officially released in Canada in English?
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