After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry and Davy must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother and cantankerous grandfather in Nova Scotia. Their cantankerous, self-absorbed grandfather pays very little attention to them. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it — but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
After losing their father in the Boer War, orphaned brothers Harry (Jon Whiteley) and Davy (Vincent Winter) must leave their home in Scotland to live with their grandmother (Jean Anderson) and cantankerous grandfather (Duncan Macrae) in Nova Scotia. The boys want nothing more than a pet dog, but their grandfather refuses to get them one. Then, when the brothers find an abandoned baby, they decide to keep it — but the foundling may not have been abandoned after all.
Both Jon Whiteley & Vincent Winter won Honorary Juvenile Oscars for their performances. Directed by Philip Leacock (who was also nominated for The Jury’s Grand Prize at Cannes in 1954 for this British film.
Starring Duncan Macrae, Jon Whiteley, Vincent Winter, Theodore Bikel, Adrienne Corri, Jean Anderson.
Rated G.