- Actors: Duncan Macrae, Adrienne Corri
- Format: PAL
- Classification: U
- Run Time: 89 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- ASIN: B000TQGRZW
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 15,159 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Set in Nova Scotia, this well acted tale tells of two orphaned children going to stay with their embittered grandfather in a remote fishing community. Remains an absorbing afternoon watch even after more than half a century.
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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
This is one of my childhood favorites! If you check IMDb, it is also a favorite of MANY other people. It is a wonderful story; a picture of immigrant life in Canada (Nova Scotia, in particular) with terrific characters and acting, especially by the two boys who play the "kidnappers"! Yet I never even see it SHOWN ON TV, let alone, released on DVD!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
The beauty of Film 4 on British television is that they show a lot of films that have not seen the light of day for a long time.
If I have not heard of the title I immediately look up on the internet to see the reviews. This one was a great sentimental children's film which was perfectly palatable for adults.
Great acting by the children the granddad and Jean Anderson as their grandma. The language was quaint as it was a mixture of old Scottish words in a supposedly Canadian setting.The granddad played a similar dour Scotsman in Tunes of Glory which is another great film
Good solid story and you really believed in the characters even though the premise that two young children would be capable of looking after a small baby is a bit far fetched but that is what children's stories are about.
Great film and it nearly made me cry but it all turns out right in the end. Can't reccomend it highly enough
If I have not heard of the title I immediately look up on the internet to see the reviews. This one was a great sentimental children's film which was perfectly palatable for adults.
Great acting by the children the granddad and Jean Anderson as their grandma. The language was quaint as it was a mixture of old Scottish words in a supposedly Canadian setting.The granddad played a similar dour Scotsman in Tunes of Glory which is another great film
Good solid story and you really believed in the characters even though the premise that two young children would be capable of looking after a small baby is a bit far fetched but that is what children's stories are about.
Great film and it nearly made me cry but it all turns out right in the end. Can't reccomend it highly enough
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Seen (once, obviously) as a child, never forgotten. Almost impenetrable accent, though - but isn't the pure piping of small children, in whatever language, both miraculous and devastatingly beautiful?
Disclosure: I have seen it once since, in the 90s; hadn't realised till then it was Scottish, of course - in the largely pre-TV 50s we were pretty well isolated in our linguistic ghettos (no bad thing, you might think, if it helped preserve such accents); mine was London, where hearing American spoken was an Event (even a black bus conductor was still a rarity) and the daily attempts of Children's Hour to familiarise me with non RP forms of speech via a motley collection of dodgy-sounding announcers from the 'regions' fell on decidedly stony ground; I knew what English was supposed to sound like and the outlying tribes had better get used to it. (In the end I am afraid that is more or less what is happening as our respective dialects are shorn of local peculiarities and we all talk txt.)
Disclosure: I have seen it once since, in the 90s; hadn't realised till then it was Scottish, of course - in the largely pre-TV 50s we were pretty well isolated in our linguistic ghettos (no bad thing, you might think, if it helped preserve such accents); mine was London, where hearing American spoken was an Event (even a black bus conductor was still a rarity) and the daily attempts of Children's Hour to familiarise me with non RP forms of speech via a motley collection of dodgy-sounding announcers from the 'regions' fell on decidedly stony ground; I knew what English was supposed to sound like and the outlying tribes had better get used to it. (In the end I am afraid that is more or less what is happening as our respective dialects are shorn of local peculiarities and we all talk txt.)
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