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The Little Kidnappers | |
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Genre | Crime Drama |
Written by | Coralee Elliott Testar |
Directed by | Donald Shebib |
Starring | Charlton Heston Patricia Gage Bruce Greenwood Leah Pinsent |
Music by | Mark Snow |
Country of origin | Canada |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Executive producers | Philip D. Fehrle Glenn R. Jones Noel Resnick |
Producer | James Margellos |
Cinematography | Miklós Lente |
Editor | Ron Wisman |
Running time | 92 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Canadian Broadcasting Corporation Disney Channel |
Release | August 17, 1990 |
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The Little Kidnappers is a 1990 Canadian drama television film[1] made by Testar Productions, Margellos-Resnick and Jones 21st Century for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and the Disney Channel. It tells the story of orphans Harry and Davy MacKenzie (Leo Wheatley and Charles Miller), who are sent to live with their stern grandfather, James MacKenzie (Charlton Heston).
Based on the short story "Scotch Settlement" by Neil Paterson (previously filmed in 1953), set in Nova Scotia in 1903, the film 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.[2]