The Little Kidnappers (1990 film)

The Little Kidnappers
Directed by	Donald Shebib
Written by	Coralee Elliott Testar
Starring	Bruce Greenwood Patricia Gage Charlton Heston
Music by	Mark Snow
Release dates	August 17, 1990
Running time	92 minutes
Language	English

The Little Kidnappers is a 1990 Canadian/American television film made by Testar Productions Ltd., the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Disney Channel. It tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie (Leo Wheatley and Charles Miller) and their grandfather, James MacKenzie (Charlton Heston).

Based on the short story The Kidnappers (which had previously been filmed in 1953), and set in Nova Scotia in 1903, it 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.^[1]

Plot

Coralee Elliott Testar's version of the story revolves around letters written by James' son to his wife and children and what Harry and Davy bring with them in a box carved by James for his son. Through these letters, he finds healing from the grief he feels over the death of his son at the hands of Dutch soldiers in the Second Boer War in South Africa and deliverance from the hatred in his heart for those of Dutch ancestry.

The movie's title refers to the discovery and rescue by Harry and Davy of a baby left on a beach and their decision to hide and care for it themselves rather than risk their grandfather's harsh and unmerciful reaction to it.

References

↑ "CSS Acadia Filmography", Maritime Museum of the Atlantic

External links

The Little Kidnappers at the Internet Movie Database

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