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Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...Read moreLess
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
The story
Loosely based on a '50's movie of the same name, it tells the story of two young orphan boys who travel by themselves from the Old country to join their father's family in Canada. There they encounter their stern disciplinarian grandfather who has alienated himself from some of his neighbors. There is particularly no love lost between the grandfather and his Dutch neighbors, who he generalizes as being responsible for his son's death in the Boor War. A side product of this animosity is that it is keeping apart the boy's aunt and her Dutch doctor suitor. The two boys change everything though when they find a young baby on the beach...
Cast & crew
Charlton HestonJames MacKenzie
Bruce GreenwoodWillem Hooft
Patricia GageMrs. Mackenzie
Dan MacDonaldTom Cameron
Richard DonatHans Hooft
Amos CrawleyJan Hooft
Eileen PeddeMrs. Hooft
Deborah AllenMrs. CameronExplore the crew
- Director
- Donald Shebib
- Writer
- Donald Shebib
- Writer
- Neil Paterson
- Director of Photography
- Miklós Lente
- Producer
- James Margellos
- Editor
- Ron Wisman
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Snow